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>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.
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