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SlothfulCobra posted:The New Mexico flag is still one of the best state flags out there though. It's got a very simple and meaningful design that you can recognize at a glance, and it even represents the native population, which is the third-highest proportion out of any state at 9.1%. You... must be kidding, right? That flag is atrocious. Nevermind the letters, the lettering itself looks like Word Art circa 1993.
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Europe has pretty solid flags overall, but this one has always irked me: The pattern looks like Commodore 64 ASCII art or something snatched from grandma's home embroidery for her coffee table. It looks boorish, hokey and overcomplicated at the same time, like trying to top off a failed cake with frosting patterns meant to look like cuneiform script. And to think they could have had this: 
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My Russian/Ukrainian is pretty lovely but, um, that top word means '(TO) DIE' I think? Not that the big gently caress-off skull didn't tip anyone off, probably
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Count Roland posted:Also it's not like those "rules" are anything more than guidelines dreamed up by people because they thought they made sense. Flags are an art, and art breaks rules all the time. True, but most art is lovely, ergo most flags are lovely, and to break the rules in an interesting fashion, you've got to know them first. Art brut is rarely more than merely interesting.
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Is this a series? If so, can you post the rest, I don't feel like trawling through miles of Instagram trash 
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SlothfulCobra posted:
I think this flag is trash on purpose, kind of like brutalist architecture is meant to convey to the individual that they mean nothing.
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Mississippi more like Missippissi am i rite
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Xombie posted:As someone from Ohio, this triggers me. You have astronauts, too, I thought.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It’s a good flag but now looks unfortunately kekistani. In the US, maybe. Check the flag of my hometown: 
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Grouchio posted:Brussels native? Or is that Gent? It's Ghent. You're thinking of the Brabantian flag, which is the inverse of the Flemish flag:  This is the flag of Brussels, with Saint Michael trampling the Devil:  The Brussels Capital District has its own flag, too, which is oddly French-looking to me due to its fleur-de-lys: 
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Feb 8, 2021 17:56
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Looks like cum to me tbh
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Vasukhani posted:Probably a Georgian emigre. Most Americans from the former soviet union support Trump and are fond towards Putin. I wonder why they would use that flag though, Georgia began using it from ~2004 after a political movement drove the distinctly pro-Putin president Shevernadze from power
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In Vatican City, where priests are so pretty I first set my eyes on the cardinal's throne
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BonHair posted:Especially if it's stylised a bit: idk it looks nice when blown up to a large size but in smaller sizes it looks like jpeg artifacts I agree with the other poster who said text on flags is kind of gauche, and I think it holds true even for scripts like Arabic or Devanagari. It just looks better to people who can't read the script so they parse it as a design pattern instead of letters.
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Byzantine posted:T-pose to assert imperium Imperial Power Stance, as it were
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If we simply revive the Holy Roman Empire, we won't need separate belgian and german flags. They aren't even 90° versions of each other because the color bands have a different order, and if you want to get really technical, the yellow in Germany's flag is of a darker shade.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Yeah, but San Marino doesn't have a hole in the map. It's too small to even merit a hole. Vatican City doesn't have one either.
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I appreciate the design shootout to Greenland's flag, but why the hedron?
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Guavanaut posted:
Surely you mean Kyrgzgesagt
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Futanari Damacy posted:South Carolina Surely you mean أقدس الخلافة في ولاية كارولينا الجنوبية
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Guavanaut posted:Afrikaner Voetfetisjbeweging De Grote Aftrek
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Guavanaut posted:No ring. Did you follow-up on my suggestion from last page? Or did someone else have the same (admittedly not terribly original) idea? 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:and hooked crosses for Central Europe. 
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Tnega posted:
Fargo Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondriaan
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I am very much in favour of popery though e: explicitly Protestant flags blow rear end
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BonHair posted:How about antipope flags? idk ask Corky
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I was going to be all like "they're missing the truly Danish pronunciation", but I see that it's included in the bonus example where it's part of a longer sentence. Every time a Dane uses a stød an angel dies.
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steinrokkan posted:The Kyrgyzstan flag depicts the sacred final boule from the petanque game in which they won their independence Petanqistan does have a ring to it I must say
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's a great idea. Too bad about 100% of flags don't follow this scheme. I know you like to shitpost (doodoopost, even) but this is simply not true.
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It's kind of darkly funny we're discussing the merit of script systems for various languages while posting in English, a language notorious for its baffling spelling rules, written in Latin script, a script that's historically awful at handling languages with complex vowel systems like in Germanic languages.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:English doesn't have a complex vowel system, unless you're a stupid-rear end Anglo linguist who thinks diphthongs and triphthongs are what they aren't and that the fact that long and short vowels are phonetically somewhat different is somehow important when writing language down, when it's not. 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
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GlyphGryph posted:English has had several spelling reforms. They haven't worked very well overall. Part of the problem is dialects, but it's also that relatively few English words even have a single pronunciation within the dialect - most have several correct but contextual pronunciations, and trying to capture that in written english would be a headache, so with a few exceptions (like common contractions) we usually don't even bother to try. Which is a lame excuse. Languages like Dutch and Italian have many dialects but have a fairly decent spelling/pronunciation-relationship. The point of spelling is not to accurately capture every possible idiolect but to find a reasonable middle ground to represent standardised pronunciation.
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BonHair posted:This, however, is a terrible idea. Excel does this where every command is translated into Danish, making 100% of tutorials online useless because I need to know that Vlookup is actually called Lopslag in Danish for idiotic reasons. From what I gather, programming is 90% googling how to do stuff, so breaking that would be bad. "lopslag" sounds kind of dirty
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May I present to you the naughtiest of asteroids: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981202 Pretty cool the preceding asteroid is named 9000 Hal though.
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Or a travel agency from the early aughts
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