Re: Conlang flag design; comments and proposals

In a message dated 9/4/2004 4:49:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cinga@GMX.NET
writes:

>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.
While the idea of using the Tower of Babel is interesting, I'm not sure it
really works well.  The more Biblically-inclined might note that (a) the
building of the tower is portrayed in the Bible as a sin, and (b) the proliferation
of languages that follows is portrayed as a punishment.  So I'm not sure that
we're on the right side of this metaphor, if you know what I mean.

On another flag:

Barry Garcia's suggestion at
http://www.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/conlangflag.htm is unpleasing to me. The mouth & tongue seem too cartoonish. What we
have here is a flag sticking its tongue out at the viewer.  Also, the
arrangement of a triangle on the left side with horizontal stripes on the rest of the
flag is too reminiscent of certain real-world flags. The fact that it looks
something like the Czech flag is harmless enough, but the first thing that
popped into my mind was that is reminded me of the Palestinian flag.  I think that
brings up political associations we'd rather avoid.  (Objectively, I suppose
it doesn't look _much_ like the Palestinian flag, which has 3 stripes, not 2,
and a different color scheme, but for some reason that's what came to mind.)


Doug

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