Well, it's not that simple. I can pretty much tell what the buttons stand for. They're more like signs than symbols. I'm even reconciled to for undo, even though it's not at all clear just what that arrow is pointing to. But what the devil does mean, anyway?

Now there are some who say that America is heading back to the days when writing was in pictures instead of in words. Just look at the multitude of icons on street signs, on consumer products and in shop windows -- don't get me started on VCRs! -- and you'll see what I mean. In the pre-literate Egyptian days the meanings of their mysterious symbols were kept a sacred secret (hence the origin of hieroglyphics: heroV, sacred, and glufein, to carve). Nowadays the symbols aren't even sacred.