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Elexi
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Message 65 of 66

14 July 2012 at 4:53pm | IP Logged

Yeah - and to make things easy, everyone could use the top left hand part of the
Australian flag :-}
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Luso
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Message 66 of 66

14 July 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

A simple and sufficient reason for using Union Jack as a marker for English could be that English people in England invented the language. But US citizens are welcome to use Stars and Stripes and the Australians and the New Zelanders are welcome to use their flags if they can't bear to see the flag of the old colonial power. Likewise it seems most logical to use the Portuguese flag to denote the Portuguese language, but the Brazilian flag is OK with me - escpeially if the dialect used actually is Brazilian.

In my experience, it depends on the nationality of the person developing the site: if it is a Portuguese or a non-Lusophone, the person will instinctively reach for a Portuguese flag. Therefore, when I see a Brazilian flag, I know the site (or the page, for that matter) has been set up by a Brazilian, or at least by a person with an extensive exposure to Brazilian Portuguese.

Edited by Luso on 14 July 2012 at 5:33pm
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