That's the kind of thinking that makes the C++ standard unreadable to most. I started out reading and memorizing
※ the original casually-written Annotated Reference Manual. As things got more formal, a casual word would be replaced with the more formal phrase, everywhere. Then more qualifiers were added, such as "non-cv-qualified" and so on. If you didn't already know what it meant, it's thick goo.
I would envision a spec that used clear and mostly terse terminology. Like Perl itself, make the most common terms short. Rather than a dozen adjectives followed by X, make that whole thing called something, and the less-constrained (rarely used) version be decorated instead.
—John
※: I impressed many, including Stroustrup himself, with my ability to name the chapter and verse where a particular feature was described, so everyone else at the table could turn to it. I was young then.