Re: language flags (was Flag of England)

In a message dated 2000/06/20 06:24:04 PM, you wrote:

>At 17:06 19.6.2000 +0000, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>
>>What about language flags. Isn't it time for those languages (and others,
>>e.g. Arabic, Mandarin, German, ?Swahili?) to get those?
>
    then B.Philip Jonsson writes:

>But what should they look like?
>
    What a gooey can of worms we have opened up here... hehe...
Shouldn't we think of some other way of symbolizing languages,
perhaps "icons" made simply from the native written word(s) for
that particular language?, i.e. _English_, _Français_, _Tok Pisin_,
then of course the various other languages in Cyrillic, Arabic, etc..
    I always felt that the use of flags to represent languages was
something from some earlier century...

    zHANg