Funny, I've been noodling on something that goes the other direction - avoiding symbols as much as possible and trying to use full english words.
Very underbaked but https://github.com/jaggederest/locque
Very underbaked but https://github.com/jaggederest/locque
It's already good enough that I'm thinking self-hosting will be relatively quick, which is a huge deal at least in my opinion. Having proper self-hosting locque-in-locque and tools in locque in the first ~6 months would be superlative.