It seems that you're implying computers are universally american and therefore people are expected to speak/use/adapt to american.

That's the harsh way to put it. A more diplomatic way is that computing is not unique in having deeply ingrained artifacts of the language and culture that birthed it and developed many of the paradigms.

Take anything having to do with seamanship. There are many terms that date back to early modern English that simply don't make sense anymore yet are accepted and universal because the British Empire had a large and enduring influence on maritime matters and happened to be at the forefront of most modern developments until about 70 years ago.

In some cases this is actually built into laws and industry practice. Pilots speak English. That's the rules. Don't like it? Invent the time machine and beat Wilbur and Orville. For much the same reason, science speaks Latin.

This technical debt is difficult if not impossible to overcome, especially in regards to computers because we still haven't cracked general purpose AI. Software will only accommodate what it was written to accommodate.

Recognizing the problem and working to fix it is all well and good. But its wise to understand that this wont be solved any time soon so in the meantime it is pragmatic to operate in such a way to maximize compatibility.

After all, I still have to call it a Foc'sle even if I think that's dumb or isn't inclusive of my culture.

There's also the practical consideration that English, due to having a) an alphabet b) letter shapes that aren't affected by surrounding letters and c) no diacritics, is the easiest major language to store and display on a computer. Even if silicon valley ended up in a country with a logographic writing system, I'd bet that the first character set that would have been used would have been Latin based

> It's not strange to localize your name.

That reminds me that I was talking once to the guy who turn Mikołaj name into Mikowhy pseudonym