Re: Conlang Flag: Results Are In!
| From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 23, 2004, 10:24 |
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--- "Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon)"
<dragon@...> a écrit :
> The flag that was known as "Flag W" has won the
> election with
> overwhelming support. That is, the layered tower
> silhouetted with the
> violet sky.
>
> I have changed
>
<http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/conlangflag.htm>
> to show the result (snip)
I didn't vote because I had lost the URL once more and
was tired to look after it :-] so I won't contest the
result.
So this is purely a remark:
- my impression, when looking at that flag, is about
something dark, even ominous, and much more like a
moonrise than a sunrise. The tower looks heavy and
gives a feeling of being very much attached to the
earth (materiality ?), rather than rising up toward an
ideal. This could probably be corrected by changing a
little the colours (making them lighter) and maybe
adding a star or something to figure the
(inaccessible) ideal.
If the idea is to suggest how hard, heavy, painful and
distressing it is to build a conlang, and to get out
of the darkness (of ignorance ?), then the flag fits
certainly quite well ;-)
But the idea of the never-completed tower seems ok to
me and I like it.
I think I probably would have voted for the flag with
the perl. I must be some idealist...
=====
Philippe Caquant
Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).
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