--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@H...> wrote:
> Ijzeren_Jan wrote:
>
> ><
http://steen.free.fr/ib/flags/conlang4.png>
> >
> >#4: the star with a simplified Babel tower. Why hasn't anybody
> >thought of that?
>
> This is my favorite of all the flag proposals so far. In addition
> interpretation, here's mine:
>
> The building of Babel represents the striving for divinity through
acts of
> creativity, which in this story resulted in the first splintering of
human
> language. The star compass can both represent the goal of heaven
and the
> fact that, after Babel, humans were spread to the four corners of
the world.
While Jan's idea of using the Tower of Babel as our badge
is a stroke of genius (how many of us have never
translated the Babel story?), this explanation is waaay
too religious for this list, which has 1) nothing to do
with religion and 2) a large population of non-Christians.
The flag, to a lesser extent, also looks a bit like a
relgious icon to me. Maybe it would look better with
another color, maybe a black background for the tower.
-- Christian Thalmann