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The brain is better with images once it has been trained to recognize them. Just sucks for the people that never got the training.

• mcswell 1y ago
  No it isn't. That's why hieroglyphics became indecipherable for nearly 2000 years, while all the various alphabetic systems invented during that time--and many of those invented long before--remained readable.
  • wyan 1y ago
    Ugaritic certainly didn't remain readable and it was alphabetic. The only reason alphabetic systems remained readable is because they remained in use.
  • ericmcer 1y ago
    uhhh I can pick out a person shaped icon from a column of icons faster than the word person from a column of words