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Re: Conlang flag design; comments and proposals

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Saturday, September 4, 2004, 19:03
 --- Jeffrey Henning skrzypszy:

> ><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.
Thanks. Of course, the tower should be done better than I did it (in no more than 20 minutes, I'm afraid), but I at least wanted to convey the basic idea.
> In addition to Jan's 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.
Excellent. I've never been particularly good at finding the right words for this kind of things! Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." Relay 10/R - schedule: <http://steen.free.fr/relay10/schedule.html> - rules: <http://steen.free.fr/relay10/intro.html> ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com