Re: Conlang Flag Design
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 6, 2004, 12:11 |
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--- David Peterson skrzypszy:
> While true, I'm sure if we thought about it long and hard enough,
> we could come up with a perfect rationale for using a flag that's
> identical to the flag of the Nazi party.
With all due respect, I don't think the comparison holds much sense.
I'm not particularly standing on the barricades to defend my star,
but where the swastika has a very distinct connotation (Nazi
Germany), the star is a very general symbol, used in all kinds of
environments. My star is supposed to be both non-political and
non-religious.
> I just wouldn't want to display a flag with what looks like to the
> casual American observer (I'm not even sure if this holds in other
> countries) like the Christian star. I'll certainly support the flag
> if it's chosen; I just won't display it.
Yeah, but then: would the casual American observer immediately
interpret your hieroglyph as a symbol for language?
> <<Given the opposition to the star, I would like to add an
> alternative possibility too:
> <
http://www.geocities.com/wenedyk/conlang5.bmp> . [...]
>
> You know, if I could suggest a variation of this variation, what
> you *could* do if you *really* wanted to incorporate a lot of the
> flags is the following:
>
> (1) Somehow make the Babel tower a bit larger (slightly);
> (2) Make the sun *much* larger, so that it's rising *over* the
> tower;
> (3) Put the tongue glyph inside the sun--but centered.