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> I'm not usually an advocate of icons, but in that case, an icon of a cart would still be preferable. I think on most shopping sites, the cart button has both
by anoncake 8y ago
> I'm not usually an advocate of icons, but in that case, an icon of a cart would still be preferable.
I think on most shopping sites, the cart button has both an icon and a label anyway.
> These meanings may not even make sense in the specific context, but with Kruger's Fact of Life #1 in mind ("We don’t read pages. We scan them."), the first connotation is actually what matters.
The first connotation depends on the context though. If you add an icon to the cart button and put it in the top right corner where people expect it, I predict that people may find it harder to identify the correct meaning than if you used "Einkaufswagen" or "Warenkorb", but only minimally.
- zrobotics 8y agoBut, in english, "Car" would be a valid (if useless) abbreviation of "Cart". Seeing "Car" next to a cart icon would be just as confusing, which is why abbreviations that are valid, common word are typically avoided. Sure, people will likely figure it out, but it will look strange, since their first thought on seeing "Wagen" will be "Why is there a car button? WTF is this for?" before eventually deducing that it is the shopping cart. To be fair, German is just a hard language to abbreviate, the compound words really tend to work against this. I'm not a linguist, but I've always wondered if the word length is one of the reasons English has borrowed so few German words relative to the romance languages.
- anoncake 8y agoBut "Wagen" does not mean car. It's meaning is closer to "wheeled vehicle that is not a bike". It's a hyponym to both "Auto"/car and "Einkaufswagen"/shopping cart. The Google Images results for "Wagen"[1] illustrate that "car" is by far not the primary meaning. [1] https://i.imgur.com/iPQcD3B.png https://i.imgur.com/iPQcD3B.png