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Originally posted by LauMars
The language you are speaking is called English, so an English flag should be shown. Or is that a little too simplistic and logical? [/B]
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Which "English" flag? The Union Jack or the more restricted flag of England (with a single red cross on white)? Tell me if there are distinctions for English spoken or understood in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or kingdom possessions of Isle of Man, and Biliwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. And which distinction you will use in the translation...
If you use the Union Jack, former British colonies will not appreciate it. It you use the England flag, it won't be recognized as meaning English in other countries than UK, and in UK it will irritate those not living in England.
So which flag use (if a flag must be used to designate languages...)? Most probably the one that most people know and recognize, and not the pedantic one (England) for the origin language. Here we don't care about where the language comes from, we speak about the current usage of the language.
If the multicolor circle on white flag of the Francophonie was much more wellknown, it would replace the French flag for French.