Meh. The very letters he is using to communicate his ideas are descendants of icons. The capital A is derived from Aleph, the ancient Semitic symbol of an ox. I

Meh. The very letters he is using to communicate his ideas are descendants of icons. The capital A is derived from Aleph, the ancient Semitic symbol of an ox. It used to look like the head of an ox, sort of. In fact, "A" still kind of looks like an upside down ox head, with the horns and everything. It does no longer mean an ox, it means letter A. Because the that’s the first sound in the word "Aleph". Similarly these icons have evolved to have abstract meanings beyond their original ones.