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by Denkel 478 days ago
"Compass for navigation" would actually confuse me as I expect a "Google maps pin" for that, for example. Also <"?" for help>, that's literally text made an icon, hardly counts for this conversation.

As someone who uses emojis to a degree that is embarrasing, I agree tgat often are amazing to convey things tgat words have harder time, but I still have to accept that there is ambiguity in their meanings, yes, a bunch of conventions have rooted enough that most people would undertand the same, but get out of those or simply present them in a different environment and things change. Labels are way less ambiguous.