alt Hacker News>As I understand, Arabic alphabet wasn't designed to be practical for daily use and only for writing sacred texts.
You clearly don't. Arabic was the premier language for philosophy, science, and mathematics in the middle ages. Algebra, algorithms, zero, cipher, average, and so on are all etymologically Arabic. One might start to suspect bigotry from a "Panzerschrek."
>Letters have similar form to each other, joints between them makes it harder to take them apart.
Your brain is not powerful enough to pattern-match, but your incapacity is not universal.
>It's objectively so horrible.
Literal billions in the world disagree. I might equally claim that the Arabic abjad is infinitely more beautiful than the pedestrian Latin alphabet, especially when expressed in the ugly and diseased Orc-tongue that is called German. [1] Your lack of taste is not universal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS_-7B1FAbE&pp=ygUaY2hpbmVzZ...
> Arabic was the premier language for philosophy, science
But this was not for ordinary people (peasants) or even accountants, where practicality matters.
> Your brain is not powerful enough to pattern-match, but your incapacity is not universal
With some training it's possible to read Arabic texts. But this requires more mental load and practice compared to other alphabetical systems.
> Literal billions in the world disagree
Argumentum ad populum. There also billions of people using even worse writing systems - non-alphabetical ones. This doesn't mean that they are as good as alphabetical systems like latin.
The video you linked has nothing to do with practicality. It's about calligraphy, which is an art form. It may look good, but it doesn't matter for daily use when one needs to read and type a lot.