Re: Pictures, words, info, glyphs, symbols, thoughts? (Take II)

Subject: Re: Pictures, words, info, glyphs, symbols, thoughts? (Take II)
From: Doc <dlettvin -at- attbi -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:53:06 -0400


On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:32:09 -0400, "Hart, Geoff"
<Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> wrote:

>I stick to my guns: pictographs of various sorts are highly subjective, and
>thus, their meanings must be learned. The same is true of words, but we have
>tools (dictionaries and editors) for helping us to use words consistently;
>we lack such tools for graphics, despite efforts by luminaries such as
>Jacques Bertin to develop a visual grammar.

You guys have to stop tempting me into these discussions.

In this case I'll simply say that at the current state of the western
graphical glossary, I feel that graphics supports text and only the
simplest (and primarily physical) instructions can depend solely or
even primarily on graphics.

Having said that, I will remind you that I live in the Boston area.
This area has some of the strangest road signs.

A local webmeister has assembled a collection of road signs, confusing
and amusing. Some foreign doozies are included.

I have seen many of these, including the ! -at- * sign on the home page and
the third and sixth sign in exhibit 6.

Have fun.

http://www.signslanguage.com/index.html

-Doc
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