Archive for July 10th, 2012

What Icon is This?

What is wrong with using words?

I know that international companies can save on printed material by making instructions and warnings in drawings and symbols only, to be language-independent.

But, at some point, the symbols become too cryptic or not detailed enough to communicate to the general public.

Here is what prompted that thought:

an indecipherable icon showing a hand with some bristles.

I have a guess as to what it might mean, but instructions and warnings should not have the user guessing as to their meanings.

Any idea what this means, other than “be sure to brush your teeth”?

Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

Daniel 5:8