Yea but, why do we have to speak in Greek in the first place?

So consulting companies can make bank teaching you how.

After convincing the CIO that 'GREEK' is the silver bullet to their problems.

/s

Because that's the language the laws are written in. If you don't speak Greek, you don't know what the law is, so you'll break it. That's a bad idea.

If you're living in the Byzantine Empire, that is.

Same can be said about English with regards to programming. Most people don't have English as a native language.

Yeah that's why I normally write documentation in English instead of Greek. That way, when people read it, they don't need to learn a new language.

Besides, that's only half of my criticism. Greek is at least a full language where you have the flexibility to phrase things however you want and inject detail wherever you need. UML is a very rigid language which makes it hard to emphasize certain elements over others. A text has a reading order and a logical progression; UML is spaghetti.

If you're gonna write your docs in a different language, at least pick a good one.