Language and Ph.D. programs
USians have the privilege of much of the world using English and generally not being in close proximity to other countries that use a different language (US-Mexico border excepted of course). For me personally, language has always been simple -- a matter of replacing one set of referents for mentalese (if you want to be Fodorian about it) with another. Math, programming, and statistics feel like just another language to me. Other people seem to think differently, of course.
Clearly there MUST be C poetry out there. I'll have to look.
Most experts say math and music are in effect, just another language, so it's not surprizing you find them easy. my hubby is an excellent math person and a pretty darned good amature music type. He probably sees them the way you do. He also thinks in picures like you. I think in words. voices, in side my head, echo, things that we said.
Math has never been my forte. Although, music in a way has been able to be translated to me as another language. But not by reading it. Just by listening. I think in colored letters, and scriptured images. And music actually affects those images like a catalyst. If that made sense?
You're not a synesthete are you?