Not relevant to the discussion on language choice, but I love this part:

> The single remarkable feature of my reader is that I don’t sort posts chronologically but by “reverse frequency”. If I follow a news site that publishes twice an hour and an essayist that publishes every two months, I want the essayist at the top of my feed if they published yesterday, even if there are 30 more recent news posts.

I love the idea of seeing the less frequent posters at the top!