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Background: As time goes on, certain emoji will become obsolete. Some of them already have! Although this is not a huge problem right now, it may become one in the future: will anyone understand what the “pager” emoji means in 100 years? Fig 1: In a hundred years, this pager icon will will baffle and…
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Background: Our current alphabet is derived from an ancient system of representational icons. These icons were once pictures of actual objects, but have been simplified to an easier-to-write form over the millennia. For example, according to the inerrant source of knowledge known as Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet): The letter “Q” used to be one of these: This…
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The horrifying issue: The “apostrophe + s” ending in English has multiple meanings. This can be confusing. Fig 1: Hypothesis: the apostrophe (as seen above) is a poor choice of symbol for indicating possession. Here are some examples of a few applications of ’s (or s’ ) : Singular possession (“The cat’s tail.”) Plural possession…
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