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While widely used symbols like “eagle displayed” or “lion passant guardant” are really well defined, the more you get to the esoteric stuff the more you find th
by maratc 3y ago
While widely used symbols like “eagle displayed” or “lion passant guardant” are really well defined, the more you get to the esoteric stuff the more you find there are really no standards. Try “importing” such thing as “octopus proper”.
Heraldically speaking, it really makes no difference, as nobody would mistake the “wrong” flag of Vatican to represent some completely different entity. But TLA is not implying that — just asking for some more standardization of a widely-used symbol.
- dehrmann 3y ago> nobody would mistake the “wrong” flag of Vatican to represent some completely different entity Compare that to Australia and New Zealand. If you don't know what do look for and aren't aware the other's out there, you could easily mix them up.
- ytdytvhxgydvhh 3y agoNZ came pretty close to changing to an original flag but ended up sticking with that “we’re not Australia, really” flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015–2016_New_Zealand_flag_referendums https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015–2016_New_Zealand_flag_r...
- lostlogin 3y agoThat man’s vanity project and the shitty options on offer is what scuppered that, not the quality of the existing flag. I never thought an opportunity to show Laser Kiwi would come up here. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/fire-lazar https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/fire-lazar
- CoastalCoder 3y agoPlaying "Legion TD2" had been great for my recognition of national flags. Every game I see up to 3 other flags for the other players, and the country name is shown on mouse-over. It even taught me of the existence a country I'd never heard of before.