Re: Conlang flag design; comments and proposals

 --- 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

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