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TIL about one more thing US misunderstood and now we have to deal with it. Another one is command key on mac, "borrowed" from road sign indicating "sight seeing
by vincnetas 1y ago
TIL about one more thing US misunderstood and now we have to deal with it. Another one is command key on mac, "borrowed" from road sign indicating "sight seeing place" :)
- gjvc 1y agohttps://brndstudio.medium.com/how-a-swedish-road-sign-inspired-the-macbook-command-key-d9405491d7ba https://brndstudio.medium.com/how-a-swedish-road-sign-inspir...
- eviks 1y agoWhat was misunderstood in the command key? The link mentions nothing of the sorts
- MonstraG 1y agoDon't know anything about misunderstandings, but the symbol in question is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looped_square https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looped_square
- justusthane 1y agoI don't see how borrowing the Swedish "point of interest" symbol for the command key is "misunderstanding" something - as I understand the story, they just liked the symbol and decided to use it. Also, I'm certainly not a US apologist, but I also don't see how the US using the short scale is a case of misunderstanding - it sounds like they just decided that it makes more sense that way (and I would agree, although maybe that's just because I'm used to it).
- wltr 1y agoIt makes no sense I’d say. In many European languages it’s milliard, etc.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y agoWhy is million special when the numbers are grouped in 3s (thousands)? That makes no sense. Why flip flop suffixes between ion and iard?