Originally posted by Amano Jacu:
<strong>OK, it sure took me a long time but here you have the catalan flag, I've made it 15x22, 153 bytes gif, from here:
So what do I do? Should I e-mail it to a mod? Please tell me.
Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why would you want that flag in here for?
Originally posted by Galford Forever:
<strong>I asked for an American flag, and the response I got was that they only want flags to represent languages, not one for each country.
So you guys ain't getting your flag is what it pretty much amounts to. If you do get yours though, then I better a good old U S of A flag in there!
EDIT: Oh, you want to put it under your avatar. That's different. They may help you out on that.
[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: Galford Forever ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Galford, the Catalan flag does not represent a country. It represents a division of Spain ( cataluñia ) wich they speaks a diferent version of the spanish language. It's just a part of Spain like any other else, but with a variation on the language.
Originally posted by Atrophyed:
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Galford, the Catalan flag does not represent a country. It represents a division of Spain ( cataluñia ) wich they speaks a diferent version of the spanish language. It's just a part of Spain like any other else, but with a variation on the language.
Ah, I wasn't aware. Sorry.
Anyway, I still feel that if they are going to shut me down with the US flag, then, by the same logic, you should not get yours either. Not cause I don't like you, it's just in the sake of treating everyone equel.
It could be said that the English spoken in the US is certainly a variation of the English spoken in Britain. I have a very, very hard time understanding British-english and there are many words and phrases that exist in that language that I don't know and vice versa.
Anyway, I do know that it's a sore spot for people who speak that "version" of Spanish. I lived next to some people from there while I was living in Tokyo and they made it very clear that they were not Spanish! They were quite adamant about it
Originally posted by Atrophyed:
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Galford, the Catalan flag does not represent a country. It represents a division of Spain ( cataluñia ) wich they speaks a diferent version of the spanish language. It's just a part of Spain like any other else, but with a variation on the language.
Man, you have ABSOLUTELY no idea about what you are talking about. Please, if you don't know the reality just don't say anything. I hope you posted this without bad intentions, but your ignorance needs to be repaired. I wouln't say anything about Portugal I'm not sure about, specially about history as I know this can hurt somebody's feelings, and I expect you to do the same.
The Catalan flag DOES represent a country, although nowadays that country is NOT an independent state. Catalonia (that should be called in its original language Catalunya, where "ny" is pronounced as a Spanish "ñ", Portuguese "nh" or French "gn") existed as an independent country with that flag many CENTURIES before Spain even existed. In fact what we call Spain nowadays was created when the two most important countries of the Iberic Peninsula during the 15th century (Castilla and Catalunya) joined to become one. Notice that Portugal was also a part of Spain during some years in the 16th century, although now is a different state.
And about the language, Catalan is a total different language from Spanish, although they both share the same latin roots as Portuguese, Italian and French (in fact Catalan is also quite similar to French). But is a different language and it's recognised by the Unesco, it has more than 7 million speakers.
I hope things are clearer now. I agree there's no need to put this flag in the message icons, but there already are 3 people that want to have it under their avatar.
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