It's aesthetically revolting and allows for multiple renderings of the same word.
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All peasant societies were illiterate, including Latin script adopters. Completely irrelevant to Arabic.
"Or even accountants" - apparently, Arabs didn't trade! It's not like Muhammad himself was, you know, a trader and an accountant...
> With some training it's possible to read Arabic texts. But this requires more mental load and practice compared to other alphabetical systems.
Perhaps your brain is too slow. I and many other bilinguals read Arabic even more quickly and efficiently than Latin-script languages. The words are terser and are read as units as opposed to the inefficient character-by-character Latin system. Speed-reading doesn't exist in Arabic because Arabic is already speedily read.
> It may look good, but it doesn't matter for daily use when one needs to read and type a lot.
You just said it was objectively horrible looking above. But consistency cannot be expected of a jumbled mind.
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...