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Stop Blair! | 274 comments (267 topical, 7 editorial, 0 hidden)

Those that I think represent more populated and thus urgent countries, and note this is an entirely uneducated guess.

Also, do we want a 24th language to fill up the flag table ?

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Feb 5th, 2008 at 05:40:21 AM EST
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Latin (Vatican flag) has been suggested. Jérôme has been offered an Esperanto translation - what's a flag for that?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 05:46:17 PM EST
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Green with white square top right and green star in it. (Had an Esperanto guy as roommate for a year :-) )

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 05:50:56 PM EST
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I mean top left.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 05:52:09 PM EST
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I wouldn't do esperanto, imho this would undermine credibility. Love the thought, and the sentiment behind it, but it is sort of "out there" in a way we probably want to avoid if some "mainstream" attention is pushing this way.

Only EU languages makes sense - we could've done Russian and decided against on that score. Ditto esperanto...and Latin too in my view.

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by redstar on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 05:54:38 PM EST
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I disagree. But maybe the way to do it is to use the 25th place as an 'other languages' link, collecting everything else we get. (Beyond Russian, we should also get Catalan and Welsh, and then we should have at least Basque, Turkish, Arab.)

I also think (but still haven't got feedback from Loefing) that the flags may be better placed below the Stop Blair/Petition... part.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 06:00:29 PM EST
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Well, people are throwing around Catalan and Welsh translations and we can't have Russian (spoken as a second language by 6% of the EU population)?

I say we should have Russian, and Catalan and Welsh and Esperanto and whatever else.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 06:52:02 PM EST
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If it's a language spoken by a large number of citizens of the EU, it's fine by me, that's for sure. Large number defined in the tens of thousands, think that covers everything listed except maybe esperanto (though aren't their a lot of those speakers in Poland?)

otoh, if someone offers up klingon I think we should say no.

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by redstar on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 07:05:24 PM EST
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Esperanto does have lots of speakers, though less so among young people.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 07:15:36 PM EST
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I figured as much...

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by redstar on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 07:20:31 PM EST
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