Siobhan688078 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 3:29 am
Daniel589120 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:29 pm
... Wales is not represented on the Union Jack, and the Red Dragon of Wales is the only flag any true Welsh person is really proud to display.
That's true but I am talking about the English language and how it is represented by flag on this site
From my understanding the Welsh language is associated with the nation of Wales and is represented on this site and on Duolingo by a crude representation of the Welsh flag.
Also from my understanding, about half the people in Wales can speak English (to some extent or another), I don't think that half would really object to the Union Jack being used to represent the English language on DuoMe, any more than say anyone else from any part of the UK. I can't imagine them objecting to the English flag being used either.
I do think that more of them would be a little concerned with the language being represented by the flag of a former British colony.
Let's say that Duolingo had been set up and is operated in Jamaica, do you really think that they would use the Jamaican flag to represent the English language?
I would also imagine that if the site were in the Bahamas or New Zealand or any other predominately English speaking country that they would still use either the English flag or the UK flag to represent the language.
Additionally, the flag used here and on Duolingo is not actually the US flag but also another crude representation of the flag missing a few stripes and a lot of stars!
The English flag or even the Union Jack would be easier to represent and the Union Jack itself would be more recognizable of the two.