> If it worked for so many years, a lot of people are familiar with them The thesis is that they don't work, at all. I have to look them up every time because

> If it worked for so many years, a lot of people are familiar with them The thesis is that they don't work, at all. I have to look them up every time because they are absolutely inscrutable today. Laundry symbols are rarely looked at for most folks, so they have to be maximally communicative. It's not good enough if the only people that know what they mean are those that deal with them constantly.