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I guess these days reverse image search might actually be easier than putting displays in each button/knob, but maybe that will also change back in the near fut
by 082349872349872 2y ago
I guess these days reverse image search might actually be easier than putting displays in each button/knob, but maybe that will also change back in the near future?
(the car I was just in had ~30 buttons and knobs on the steering wheel and console, not counting stalk functions, and paging through the languages on offer for the lcd displays I counted ~8 distinct script families)
The old-fashioned way to learn the symbols would have been to see them along with their description in the owner's manual, but that also has its drawbacks — I got a good deal on a new truck a few years ago, with the minor hook being that the only dead-tree manual it came with was in czech.
- WalterBright 2y agoIt wouldn't take me too long to learn On/Off in Czech. I've been in many foreign countries with zero knowledge of the language, and was able to quickly learn the words necessary, like "exit", "airport", etc. Fluency is completely unnecessary. In your case it's 30 words. I submit it is not any harder to learn them than memorize 30 arbitrary illustrations that have no particular relationship to their function. And, frankly, most everyone on the planet knows at least a few English words.
- 082349872349872 2y agoAha, I hadn't understood you meant arbitrary words were fine, just not arbitrary icons. Maybe sometime when I get sufficiently nerdsniped I'll figure out how to re-silk all the physical labels in my car into the lang belta from The Expanse? P seteshang R ruserux N naterash D do (Surely someone, somewhere, has a car with its buttons labelled in tengwar/quenya?)