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Have you ever noticed that the 'direction' icon is an arrow? The whole idea of icon symbols is to replace a text word (which only works in one language) with a
by simonblack 4y ago
Have you ever noticed that the 'direction' icon is an arrow?
The whole idea of icon symbols is to replace a text word (which only works in one language) with a picture (which can work in multiple languages).
Those pictures are extremely often 'out of date' as their accepted usage lasts long after the objects themselves that are shown are removed from daily use. When was the last time you fired an arrow in a specific direction?
- AnnoyedComment 4y ago[dead]
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThis is true with language in general. Like when you say there is a window on your desktop, both of those things are metaphors. They are like their namesake in some regard. There are languages where the word for door is the same as mouth, and window resembles the word for eye.
- simonblack 4y agoBut the idea of a door would be a door-icon, and that of an eye would be an eye-icon. Hence why icons persist as a multi-language communications system.