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by chii 1043 days ago
> A short sentence does this description just as good and is much less ambiguous

so you're now dictating what can be said, rather than designing a system for which _anything_ that could be said is possible?

You're missing the goal of a system of writing and representation.

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The system exists. It's text.
how would you write something that's not ascii character based, such as hieroglyphs?
A set of hieroglyphs for a formally designed and recognized language that is in use to communicate is one thing. Endless bits of arbitrary clip art is another.