<story><title>Looped Square Or ⌘</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arketyp</author><text>As the article says it&amp;#x27;s used for cultural locations here in the North. I asked my family members what they associate it with and got a variety of answers, including Viking ornamentation, a citadell layout, house foundation, reminiscence of the infinity symbol (persistence through time). As a kid seeing it on the keyboard next to the Apple logo I thought it looked like a leaves or maybe vines. It&amp;#x27;s a funny thing the potency of such abstract symbols, adaptable to different contexts via multiple interpretations, but whose shapes are also not completely separated from what they represent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>It looks almost exactly like dark-ages castle layouts, with 4 bastion towers to cover the corners. Example of Malmo fortification from 1700: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;malmo.se&amp;#x2F;Uppleva-och-gora&amp;#x2F;Arkitektur-och-kulturarv&amp;#x2F;Malmos-historia&amp;#x2F;Stadens-historia&amp;#x2F;Fredlig-utveckling-pa-1700-talet.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;malmo.se&amp;#x2F;Uppleva-och-gora&amp;#x2F;Arkitektur-och-kulturarv&amp;#x2F;M...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can see the Castle and its surrounding moat to the west.</text></comment>
<story><title>Looped Square Or ⌘</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arketyp</author><text>As the article says it&amp;#x27;s used for cultural locations here in the North. I asked my family members what they associate it with and got a variety of answers, including Viking ornamentation, a citadell layout, house foundation, reminiscence of the infinity symbol (persistence through time). As a kid seeing it on the keyboard next to the Apple logo I thought it looked like a leaves or maybe vines. It&amp;#x27;s a funny thing the potency of such abstract symbols, adaptable to different contexts via multiple interpretations, but whose shapes are also not completely separated from what they represent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Svip</author><text>In Danish, the key is sometimes jokingly referred to as »seværdighedstasten«.  »Seværdighed« being a location of interest (and »tasten« key).</text></comment>