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Your fabric icons example may seem diffficult to get at first, but once you read what each of this icons represent it's pretty easy to remember that next time
by usaphp 9y ago
Your fabric icons example may seem diffficult to get at first, but once you read what each of this icons represent it's pretty easy to remember that next time
- vacri 9y agoIt's exactly the same with letters. There's nothing particularly evocative about the English 'a' in the glyph for it. Even the arrows the OP mentions is learned association.
- shawnz 9y agoIt's not exactly the same. The icons are mnemonics which are mostly useful when you understand what they are trying to represent. Words on the other hand are totally useless if you don't speak the language they're in. It would be very difficult to memorize a word just by its appearance in comparison to an icon.
- vacri 9y agoThere's all sorts of words I can recognise in other languages, despite not speaking them. French, German, Italian, Spanish; all these have more than a handful of words that most fairly literate native English speakers can recognise, even excluding the loan words. We learn them from exposure and association, just like with icons. Likewise, words are not totally useless if you don't speak the language. I don't speak any of the above languages, but I can still make basic comments like oui/non, ja/nein, etc.