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Why not? It seems perfectly intelligible to me which flag means what language.
by rocqua 5y ago
Why not? It seems perfectly intelligible to me which flag means what language.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoTo you, yes - but how would a Taiwanese or PRC person feel if their opposing flags were used to represent their language? (Or me, as a Brit, seeing the US Flag to represent English...) Yes, it's true that languages tend to be country-specific (e.g. en-US: USA, en-GB: UK, pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese, etc), but while that's technically true, the majority of Indo-European languages that have spread widely across many nations, don't have enough differences between them to justify using a single specific country flag to represent all of them (namely, en-GB, en-CA, en-AU, and en-US, they're hardly even separate dialects). In short: Flags identify countries, not languages. By analogy, it's like using the Java language logo to represent all Java-derived languages (C#, Swift, Golang, Kotlin) because they're mutually-intelligible.
- 0xjnml 5y ago> ... Java-derived languages (C#, Swift, Golang, Kotlin) ... Swift and Go do not belong to that list.