u/No-Expression-9536

I came up with a paradox.

Think about it: if you sit down right now and try to create a completely new letter for the alphabet, you will fail.

  1. Graphically: Any new symbol you try to draw will either just look like a random messy scribble, or your brain will automatically copy existing shapes, making it look like a combination of letters that already exist (like crossing 'W' and 'X').
  2. Phonetically: If you try to invent a brand new sound for this letter, your mouth and vocal cords physically won't be able to make it. Every sound humans can produce is already discovered. So your "new sound" will just end up being a tiny, short word made of existing sounds.

We are forever trapped inside our language system. What do you think? Try to invent one in the comments and prove me wrong.

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