[rom1v]

I'm French too, and when I was young, I learnt the Basic language before learning English (by reading Basic programs already available on our computer).

So I was able to write FOR … THEN … ELSE blocks without even knowing what the keywords meant (I just know what they did to the program). One day, I explained to my father what I was writing, and I read out loud FOR … "TEN" … "ELCE" (with a strong French accent), and he corrected me by pronouncing the words correctly ("FOR … THEN … ELSE"). I was shocked: "how do you know?" (he knew nothing about Basic or even programming).

I learnt that day that "for", "then" and "else" were not just keywords in the Basic language, but they were actually real words in English.

[rom1v]

Precision: Of course, I meant "FOR" and "IF THEN ELSE" separately (the way I wrote it might wrongly suggest there is something like for-then-else).