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by robonerd 1464 days ago
The idea of using these symbols instead of printed English is that not everybody speaks English, yes? Well, I don't speak Spanish, but I think if all of these symbols were replaced with printed Spanish words, it would be more useful to me than any of these symbols. I'd figure out what it meant with greater ease than these symbols; at the very least I would be able to look up the meaning.

And if you're going to have the symbols and printed text, you might as well omit the symbols entirely. I think both sets of symbols are worthless. I could probably guess what some of them mean if my life depended on it, but I'm not going to. Deciphering symbols is a waste of my time. At least if printed Spanish were used, puzzling out the meaning would actually enrich my life. The symbols are worthless noise and I don't want their meaning wasting space in my brain.