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Re:The Dilemma of Icons by malfist on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:45PM (#37256007)
I agree with you.

There's a reason so few modern languages are pictographic.

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Re:The Dilemma of Icons by WalterBright on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:06PM (#37256153)
Not only that, modern phonetic alphabets evolved from pictographic text! Today we're devolving back to pictograms.

Apparently, the fear is that some pre-contact tribe in the Amazon rainforest would not understand the labels on a car's controls.

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