I wish they spent time at making the code a tad bit less symbol-ic and more verb-ic, the amount of nonalphabetic symbols used is just immense and it's not easy to decipher quickly. C++ suffers from the same issue I think.
Honestly, it's not that big a deal, in my opinion. Firstly, it looks much better, since the operators, i e. the ideas I'm most familiar with, take up the least space. Secondly (and more stupidly), millions of programmers don't even know English and they've managed to get by with ifs and elses, so I'm sure we'll manage.