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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Whose ancient bright idea was that?

Hebrew has a somewhat similar (thought, IMHO, a bit less complex) concept, where certain letters look different if they are the last letter in a word. Five of the 22 letters do this.

The letter "mem" looks like this in the middle of a word מ but like this at the end of a word ם

Of course, it just looks right to me