Modern Day Ideograms
A post on Core77 half-jokingly posits that in 5000 years, archaeologists will dig up tacky shower curtains decorated with emoticons and interpret them as modern day hieroglyphics.
It had never occurred to me how these two languages, separated by an unimaginably vast expanse of time, seem not-so-far removed from each other.
Also, An Xiao observes a few charts and graphs on an office whiteboard that resemble the Chinese characters for “field” and “life.” Citing a link on how drastically Chinese characters have changed over the years, she writes, “What would modern pictographs look like? Something like the [below], I suspect - inspired by PowerPoint and graphs, rather than images from nature.”
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