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that's honestly not the best example, because, in many languages, the days of the week are associated with the planets, and all the planets have a well-recognized symbol associated with them.
with french in parentheses since english is a bastard language that uses nordic variants for half of them:
Well-recognized symbols?
And just what is wrong with a Germanic language using Nordic roots? I'd like to hold on to what little Scandinavian mythology survived being forcefully erased.
Nothing wrong with Nordic roots at all! The "bastard language" comment was meant in the sense that modern English is a germanic+romantic mongrel, so the link between our words for days of the week and our words for the planets don't make nearly as much sense as they do in other languages.
Would those metaphors be the same across those different languages or would a developer have to create bespoke icons for each language? That doesn't seem very helpful to most people, or sustainable.
It's surprisingly consistent, though of course there are plenty of exceptions and imperfections in the analogy depending on the language.
And I agree that those icons wouldn't be helpful, just that there are certainly better examples of "list of things with no easily assignable symbol".