Re: Conlang Flag: Voting

>
> I've uploaded a draft web form here - it doesn't do
> anything; it's
> just so that we can discuss layout:
> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/flagvote.htm
>
> Email votes are easier for me; the web form option
> is probably easier
> for everyone else. I'm happy either way.
>
> Adrian.
Moi 2 kopejki:

As most of these flags are highly symbolic, would it
be possible to shortly remind the voter, on the page,
what each part of each proposal is supposed to mean ?
Some may have it in mind, some may not.

Looking at these flags, I would personnally incline to
vote for the one I find the most aesthetic. Then I
could discover that the meaning of it is something
absolutely contrary to my opinions. Voting is one
thing, knowing what you vote for is another one. In
very many cases in the real world, the voter has a
very faint idea of what he is voting for (in case he
is free to do so), so voting is often similar to a
mascarade.

At the moment, I have no idea of what I should choose
in case I would be invited to, but I noted that
several of these flags have a general design close to
existing nation flags' (and one reminds me of
Paramount Pictures). In very few cases I could guess
by myself the meaning of the symbolic, having not
followed the discussion closely.


=====
Philippe Caquant


Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intellegor illis (Ovidius).

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo (Horatius).

Interdum stultus opportune loquitur (Henry Fielding).

Scire leges non hoc est verba earum tenere, sed vim ac potestatem (Somebody).

Melius est ut scandalum oriatur, quam ut veritas relinquatur (Somebody else).

Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).


		
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