On 29/05/2013 21:39, Leo Broukhis wrote:
In light of recent news about New York adopting a redesigned
"handicapped" symbol
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2013/05/28/handicapped-symbol-facelift/18034/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/05/revamped-handicapped-icons-coming-to-new-york-city
Excellent question and points from Albrecht Dreiheller.
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So the _receptive vocabulary_ might be pretty big for many people.
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So the _productive vocabulary_ of symbols will always be very, very small.
I was thinking a similar thing, and I'm inclined to agree.
But I know of paralle
> How to write a mail like this:
> "When you arrive at Madrid airport, follow the sign that looks like this: [?]"
> Even if the font library supports all needed symbols, it will be easier to
> send a photo than to choose the sign from a huge Unicode symbols list.
Yep.
This discussion about signs
Watching the discussion on symbols, icons, signs, emoticons of the last days,
I'm thinking a little bit philosophically about the question:
Where will we end up?
Is communicating with symbols like a new easy-to-learn universal language?
Is this our new Lingua Franca?
Even if there will be more dif
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