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Czech Republic, seeking a snappier name, considers a change
- eulji 11y agoThey should consider a snappier flag as they were kind of lazy with it.
- abrowne 11y agoI disagree. It's simple, but the triangle is fairly unique.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoNot really unique. Simplest of the flags with a triangle, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_style_of_national_flags#Triangle.28s.29_on_left_side https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_style_of_...
- abrowne 11y agoOK, not unique in the world, and I know some people think "unique" should be an absolute like "pregnant" – you can't be "fairly pregnant" – but it is much less common compared to vertical or horizontal stripes. And it is unique in Europe according to that list and my memory.
- jordanb 11y agoTheir flag is awesome. It's a fractal.
- Rotten194 11y agoWould it be pronounced Check-ia/ʧɛkiə or more like Sheck-ia/ʃɛkiə? The second is much easier for me to pronounce, personally, though if they removed the ending dipthong in favor of just ə they both roll off the tongue.
- bobwaycott 11y agoThe article says "CHECK-ia".
- panarky 11y agoIf they do this, Czechia will be forever confused with Chechnya.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoBusiness as usual, then. The most frequent question I was answering in 1999 was "how do you feel about Russians invading your country?" followed by "you mean there's two of those?"
- emp_zealoth 11y agoIn Poland we sometimes call them Pepiks - quite snappy (although the chechs might not like it :p)
- excel2flow 11y agoYes, but that is denotation of inhabitants, the same way Pšonci is for Poles :)
- kruczek 11y agoWell, denotation of the country is Czechy; nobody in Poland would use full Republika Czeska (unless in some official documents). So I guess if the name gets changed, at least Poles won't have to change their convention :)
- Piskvorrr 11y agoI feel that's the point of the change: it codifies actual use.
- iliaznk 11y agoThat's what we call it in Russian - Чехия
- drallison 11y agoI think the current name is superior to all of the choices proposed.