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That'd not what they said: they made a claim that a single alphabet is insufficient, and thus Greek makes as good a choice as it was used historically too (and allows easy differentiation).

Math also uses made up symbols specific to math a lot (integral, summations, arrows, operators...).

If you want to claim that Greek is the problem, how would you solve the problem of insufficient symbols?



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