But that is because Jef doesn't understand what icons were for (see 
one of my previous replies about this).

Cheers,

Alan

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At 9:17 PM -0500 2/17/01, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
>>In particular, an *icon* means nothing to me until I can *name* it
>>audibly.  I can't recall it, I can't recognize it ... until I
>>sound-out the name of it again, and then I get access to all the
>>semantics and learning I've had about that *name*, but never the icon
>>directly.
>
>Jef Raskin makes a similar criticism of such use of icons in "The 
>Humane Interface."  An interesting read.