join_the_iww [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agoWhat is your opinion of this tweet?hexbear.netimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoThat’s pretty cool the word (symbol? character?) for construction looks like an I beam.
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-25 months agoPictographs can be fun like that. Like the character for “fire” 火 looks kinda like a camp fire. You got your little pyramid of wood and two little “flames” coming off it.
minus-squarebendan [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoit originally depicted some variant of this but yeah the I-beam definitely helped cement* the continued use of this character *
That’s pretty cool the word (symbol? character?) for construction looks like an I beam.
Pictographs can be fun like that. Like the character for “fire” 火 looks kinda like a camp fire. You got your little pyramid of wood and two little “flames” coming off it.
it originally depicted some variant of this but yeah the I-beam definitely helped cement* the continued use of this character
*![emoji kelly kelly](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4130400e-bfdb-4b39-bee4-739802528a0f.png)