Grouchio posted:

I hate how all the reds and blues are all the same drat hue.

BonHair posted:

packetmantis posted:

I like the owl.

quote:

The last one is cool, like, conceptually, but not as an actual flag.

Enjoy posted:

I hope you enjoyed this flag chat.

SlothfulCobra posted:

smug n stuff posted:

I like that first column, third row is pretty blatantly copying Mississippi’s new flag, just with the Utah state flower

Randallteal posted:

It does look a little like a Google logo for a goatse-themed app. Maybe it's the divided ring that makes it look like something you could pull, uh, open.

Rochallor posted:

Ah, cool. Is the owl based on something? I recognized the capitol building immediately because of its distinctiveness but it's been a while since I was out that way.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

I actually kinda like Coal Valley Township

Platystemon posted:

Mountains should maybe not be symmetrical and definitely should not parallel hexagon.

SlothfulCobra posted:

The star is Alcatraz.

Discendo Vox posted:

…is there a way we could add old bay to the Maryland flag?

ChubbyChecker posted:

HopperUK posted:

I like the swirly one

BonHair posted:

Each state flag is the name of the state in black Times New Roman on a white background. Either centered or top left with reasonable margins, I don't care as long as it's uniform

King Hong Kong posted:

Man, those are some weak selections. Honestly, 944, for all its flaws, is the most interesting one left even though I’m sure they’ll go with the tedious r/vexillology option of 1953 or the Credit Union logo of 2100.

Peanut Butler posted:

u.s. state flags should all be required to be the shape of the state, we love it when stuff is shaped like the state we live in, we can't get enough of it

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

english (maybe also french, but i have no experience with the francophone world) does this weird thing where it preserves "correct" orthography, so it remains entirely readable in that sense, but language diverges in other ways--i wish i could find it again, but i definitely encountered some local audience indian english opinion piece that was just bizarre because it was clearly using very correct spelling and grammar, but the conventional sentence structure, word choice, and... idk, overall higher-level aspects just felt incredibly foreign. "do the needful" on steroids, essentially: you recognize all the words, but have no idea why they're being used that way

Pope Hilarius II posted:

This was probably meant as a snarling putdown of sorts but you couldn't be more wrong. English isn't my first language and I was actually only considering monopthongs, of which e.g. RP English has 13 (and 5 have a missing short/long partner so that's the first bit where you went wrong). Like in German and Dutch, long and short vowels* have different qualities to the extent that they alter the meaning of words, and in fact L2 speakers often struggle quite a bit with getting them right. That's where that age-old Internet joke comes from about the Italian tourist who wants "sheet/poo poo in the bed" because Italian doesn't have and [ɪ/i]-distinction. Phonetic distinctions either matter or they don't, they can never matter "somewhat". For instance, Scots often replace [u] with [y] but while these are qualitatively different vowels, there the distinction doesn't matter because to English ears, [y] is an allophone of [u].

The one thing you got correct though is that I'm a stupid-rear end linguist.

*You can argue that Dutch and General American English don't actually even have true long vowels so that the qualitative distinction becomes even more important

Platystemon posted:

There is great untapped potential in incorporating optical illusions in flags.