Re: Flag of England

Danny Wier wrote:
>
> >From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>
> >I think there should be a campaign for using the flag of England as a
> >symbol for English-language versions of web pages, rather than the UK/US
> >flag.  I've seen an inverted-colors version of the UK flag, but that isn't
> >any better IMHO.
> >
> >Any comers?
> ><< engsmall.gif >>
>
> Oh yeah, I agree!  The English football team uses it anyway, don't they?
> (Along with the white X-cross, the cross of St. Andrew, on blue the Scottish
> use.)  At least to indicate 'general English'.  If you want US English, UK
> English, Australian, South African, etc. then use the appropriate national
> flag.  Except with South Africa you got 11 official languages, so the
> six-color flag, which happens to be my favorite, would have to be paired
> with St. George's flag for English, or the old flag, the Dutch flag with the
> three little flags in the middle, for Afrikaans...
>
> Oh yeah, and the other day, on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, one of the
> questions was about the techinical term of the study of flags, which is
> 'vexillology'.  The contestant missed that question.
There's a great lil page for world flags here:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/
You can find just about anything you'd need for labels of what lang your
webpage is in.  And then some.  BTW, I'm working on putting my page into
French, but it's slow in coming.  (Not that it matters, because there
aren't really any English speaking visitors to speak of, but whatever :)
)  And my opinion on using the English flag instead of the UK one -- I
think it's a good idea, it is *Engl*ish after all.  I mean, if you don't
want any connotations of a particular dialect, you might as well use the
English flag.  Although I can think of quite a few speakers of American
English who wouldn't even recognize it...

Nicole
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