Tic tac toe. The pound key. Hashtag. No wonder we get so confused about the world we live in, when symbols have more lives than a cat.
Do people still play tic tac toe anymore? I don’t see it as an app anywhere. Sure it’s hard to win when you’re a kid playing against older wiser folk, and computers make winning impossible anytime, but it is a strategic game and a time passer.
The first time I started hearing “press the pound key now” on the phone, I knew that the British use the tic tac toe sign for weight, but getting customer phone calls from confused people took years to get under control.
Now we have the hashtag on Twitter. I never had a tutorial about Twitter, and therefore I have not used a hashtag on any tweets. I’m sure there is information on there somewhere about it, so I’ll have to actually take the time to. . . .skip to the next paragraph, men. . . .read the directions.
Our world has been reduced to symbolism and innuendo. Fortunately we still need words to talk about them.
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