Harvard physicist's take on the VMS

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The symbols have no logic -- why does F look like E, or Q look like O; why you add a belly to change P into B, but not to change F into V, or T into D, or S into Z?

And what kind of logic should there be? 

There is no logic in Chinese either. Because of their stupidity and redundancy, they had to start simplifying them in the 20th century.

Or should the letters reflect the exact position of the tongue and the corresponding airflow?