Comment on Speak American

NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think the Scots having to click on an English flag to read something would piss them off more?

  Or are you suggesting having a Scottish flag that displays the site in Gaelic for that 2% of Scots that know it?

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think you’re overthinking it slightly.

    • French flag represents the language called "French"
    • Spanish flag represents the language called "Spanish"
    • Russian flag represents the language called "Russian"
    • German flag represents the language called "German"
    • Portuguese flag represents the language called "Portuguese"
    • Japanese flag represents the language called "Japanese"
    • Korean flag represents the language called "Korean"
    • Chinese flag represents the language called "Chinese"
    • Italian flag represents the language called "Italian"
    • But somehow, the British flag doesn’t represent a language called “British”, but rather, one called “English”, despite there existing an English flag

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      See? This is why we shouldn’t use flags to represent languages.

      Go to Brazil, and I bet they use the Brazilian flag to represent the language they speak, not the Portuguese one.

      Go to Ireland, and you’ll see they use the Irish flag to represent the English language.

      In Switzerland, what flag should they use to represent Ladin?

      And what about Canada? They speak two official languages.

      The correct way to display languages is just their name or they ISO code. Using flags for languages is fundamentally wrong.

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      • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I feel like I’ve seen the Quebec territory flag used for “FR (Can)” which I found amusing as a US hick

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    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re right, I was, thanks

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• SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ami: isn’t that the red cross flag?

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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use

  Well yeah, but these days, you say you’re English, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail

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