In the #scifi “Robots of Dawn” series, Lijah Bailey (from a Earth-is-one-giant-city) meets Gladia (from a tee-hee-it’s-not-the-antebellum-South-but-with-robots-not-slaves-or-is-it) planet. Smelling flowers, which are not on his world, he avers:
“These flowers smell like perfume!”
Much chuckles for the reader.
Or, today at W58/Lexington Ave across from the new DKNY ad:
“Wow that lady looks so much like Kaia Gerber!”
The lady in question is Cindy Crawford, supermodel, and mother of Kaia Gerber.
“This song is so pretty. It almost sounds like something the Beatles would have done.”
In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, Barthes elegantly deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour.
‟Research reveals symbols are more memorable than words. This novel study dives into our brain’s knack for recalling graphic symbols and logos over their word counterparts. Symbols, offering visual anchors for abstract ideas, outperform words in memory tests. This understanding could revolutionize visual communication and design.”
An #academic question, #linguistics or English? My #semiotics friends? I have been using $#!+ as a typographic substitute for a certain scatalogical term for, 20 years or longer. (And according to the search engines, I am alone in this.) What is this called, properly? It similar to using strings of emoticons to mean something like this 🌾🐍🌾 (snake in the grass) but not the same.Not my field I am just curious. It is definitely not a neologism as in santorum. Is it? (Sorry for the crappy post.)
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Its a fascinating domain #semiotics - when its used to inform and generate genuine change it can be incredibly powerful, especially when used creatively to solve bespoke problems.
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