It's language-like because we want to see it that way. Years of reading trains our brain to see it that way.
That's why I wrote o‡cc89 rather than using the EVA font. We really should be seeing them as symbols rather than letters until we know what they are. They might be numbers. They might be something else.
At some point perhaps they convert to letters, but as it stands, it does not make sense to assume they are words, and changing "c"-shape to "e" gives people the wrong impression. There are no "e" shapes in the VMS.
That's why I wrote o‡cc89 rather than using the EVA font. We really should be seeing them as symbols rather than letters until we know what they are. They might be numbers. They might be something else.
At some point perhaps they convert to letters, but as it stands, it does not make sense to assume they are words, and changing "c"-shape to "e" gives people the wrong impression. There are no "e" shapes in the VMS.