unpronounceable symbol

Sofía Flores C.
Inglés Específico II
2019
 Introduction

UNPRONOUNCEABLE SYMBOL

I’m going to talk about

this mysterious symbol,
it was very popular in
the 90’, because it was
used by the singer
Prince. I’m going to
show you and explain it
origins, history,
meaning, cultural
influences and finally
my own opinion about
this symbol.

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ORIGIN & HISTORY Unpronounceable symbol
This symbol is a derivation of the gender symbols, male and
female to be more specific. This symbol represents love and
sex.

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 1.
GENDER SYMBOLS
Let’s talk about these two symbols to have an idea of what
means the unpronounceable symbol in our culture.

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 “
“A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to
represent either biological sex or sociological gender in
either biology, medicine, genealogy or selective breeding,
or in sociology, gender politics, LGBT subculture and
identity politics.”

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 MALE SYMBOL
(mars symbol considered to represent a shield and
spear)

◍ The symbol for a male organism or man. Is

linked to Mars, the Roman god of war whose
Greek equivalent is Ares.

◍ Is a depiction of a circle with an arrow

emerging from it, pointing at an angle to
the upper right.

◍ As astrological symbol, it represents the

planet Mars. In biology and botany, it is
used to represent the male sex.

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 FEMALE SYMBOL
(Venus symbol consists of a circle with a small cross
below it)

- As an astrological symbol for the planet

Venus (associated with the Roman goddess of
love, whose Greek equivalent is Aphrodite.)

- In modern times, it is still used as the

astronomical symbol for Venus. And also
came to be used in sociological contexts to
represent women or femininity.

- In botany and biology, it is used to

represent the female sex
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 Meaning
Let’s talk about the meaning of the symbol itself

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 The meaning
The meaning of this
symbol itself is a
mixture of love and
sex. It has the male
gender symbol with a
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devil-shaped tail.
The tail means the
sex, the passion,
mysterious,
eroticism.

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 UNPRONOUNCEABLE SYMBOL

What is the meaning that

Why it calls
Prince gave it?
“unpronounceable symbol”?
The symbol for him was
This symbols was used by revolution, freedom, identity,
Prince in 1993 in symbol but the most important of all,
of protest. Because this sex and love. It is no far at
symbol is not the true meaning of the symbol.
pronounceable, he was
often referred to as “The
Artist formerly known as
Prince”. But behind had a
meaning.

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What was the meaning for Prince?

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 What was the meaning that Prince gave it?

And also, Prince said:

“It symbolizes the female
and masculine part that
every person have.It is an
invitation to think in a
different way, connecting
with a new frequency.”

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 Prince mixes the meaning of love and sex to give
result what he was. Prince’s style invented the sex
symbol.

REVOLUTION
IDENTITY
SEX LOVE
FREEDOM
SAVAGE

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SOME IMAGES OF THE SYMBOL

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 What was the “unpronounceable symbol” in our
culture?

To our culture, this symbol is the icon of Sex,

introduced by Prince in the 90’.Before this,
the symbol was unknown and just know like a
symbol with the male gender.
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Conclusion
The most important things to keep in mind

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 The symbol means love and sex
The real meaning of the symbol

This symbol became popular in the decade of

90’ used by Prince
For Prince was revolution and something to identify himself

The symbol is known today for being a sex

symbol
In the present is known for this

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Thanks!

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