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This 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
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
This 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.