Musical notation is absolutely terrible, possibly even as terrible as written english, just in different ways. Not only you cannot infer anything from context

Musical notation is absolutely terrible, possibly even as terrible as written english, just in different ways. Not only you cannot infer anything from context while reading for the first time (unlike with english), modal markings that completely change meaning of most symbols are scattere all over — slightly to the left, slightly above, left margin, top of the page etc