[goto11]

> Kids today arent going to know their eta from their gamma.

Are you saying kids will not be able to distinguish between the two symbols? I highly doubt that. They may not remember the names of the symbols, but emojis have the same problem.

[CJefferson]

Sorry, yes I mean they won't know how to say them out loud, which makes discussion hard, whereas they will know snowflake or fire.

Heck, I teach graph theory and I keep forgetting the damn names mid-lecture.

[alexvoda]

Yes. You have to memorize the mapping between the meaning and arbitrary Greek letters whereas the meaning is more obvious with emoji. But both (greek letters, emoji) are bad solutions to a very stupid problem math has. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25207527