Agree with what you say, also take issue with the previous commenter's notion: > Symbols are what we make them to be. I think this is a really dangerous point

Agree with what you say, also take issue with the previous commenter's notion: > Symbols are what we make them to be. I think this is a really dangerous point of view. There are certainly some symbols with wiggle room, but I would argue that symbols transcend language by encoding meaning.