https://twitter.com/eean/status/926892649096740866?lang=en

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      That's pretty cool the word (symbol? character?) for construction looks like an I beam.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Pictographs can be fun like that. Like the character for "fire" looks kinda like a camp fire. You got your little pyramid of wood and two little "flames" coming off it.

      • bendan [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        it originally depicted some variant of this but yeah the I-beam definitely helped cement* the continued use of this character

        * kelly

    • bendan [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      yup: tool > technique > work > industry, and branching off into “construction” from somewhere in there