The good news is that the symbols (at least for modernish interfaces) seem to be being standardized. Be nice if they back-standardized though for things like serial and parallel. Another issue with words is "which $LANGUAGE" - I remember distinctly opening up the Volvo service manual and being totally confused by "bonnet" when I was about 12. I imagine that someone in England would be even more confused by "hood" (since I think it means the drop-top on a convertible over there). Symbols are fair in that they are equally inconvienient for all. BTW "la computadora" is the standard in Latin America (where the stop signs are a red octagon with "ALTO" in them). What I would like to see is connectors designed to be easy to mate. I dislike struggling with a connector because I'm some small fraction of an inch off and eventually having to take everything off the machine and turn it around so I can see what I'm doing. The modular jacks are good for blind connections, but USB is terrible (and most D-subs are hard, too. At least 13W3 gives you a tactile method to determine whether you're right-side up).