Which Euro Country Has Ugliest Flag?

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 3:28 pm

jaker wrote:The flags of the world have been "officially" rated too (see http://138.251.140.21/~josh/flags/intro.html).

I can't find the flag of the European Union... Where is it?

Debtam · Post by **Debtam** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 5:02 pm

Here it is

See also f.e.

http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:39 am

Debtam wrote:Here it is

See also f.e.

http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm

No, I meant... in the classification of this site above...

jaker · Post by **jaker** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 3:59 pm

Olivier wrote: No, I meant... in the classification of this site above...

European Union D- 39 / 100

-- jaker

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 8:55 pm

I can't find it... I must be blind...

Anyway, it's just his own opinion. I don't agree with his criteria.
As we say in France "les goûts et les couleurs..." (tastes and colours...)

Olivier

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:06 pm

I'm just reading some comments... It's obvious that the responsible of the site does not know much about the story of the states and why they have chosen this colours, or themes...

For example: Lybia has a flag with only the green colour. It's because the green is Muslim's colour and because Lybia wish to unite Arabs and Muslims.

BTW, have you noticed the similarities between the colours of the Arabic countries (Egypt, Palestinia, Irak... )?

The three colours of the french flag come from the Revolution. The white colour (the king) prisonner of the City of Paris (blue and red). Italy has kept white and red, because emperor Napoleon III helped Garibaldi ti unify the country, and just put green instead of blue.
The former french colony of Africa have kept the tricolor flag, with theor own colours.

Another funny thing... Liechtenstein and Haiti had the same flag. So, Liechenstein added a little crown on its flag.

My favourite site on flags is http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags.

Olivier

jaker · Post by **jaker** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:50 pm

Olivier wrote:I can't find it... I must be blind...

Anyway, it's just his own opinion. I don't agree with his criteria.
As we say in France "les goûts et les couleurs..." (tastes and colours...)
Olivier

No, I'm sorry Olivier, the points were my own invention

-- 6 months to all fools' day...

! But yes, it's his own opinion as the European flag rating was mine. As we say in Finland "makuasioista ei voi kiistellä".

--jaker

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:06 pm

jaker wrote: As we say in Finland "makuasioista ei voi kiistellä".

--jaker

How do you pronounce it?

I'd like to be able to say it!

Finn · Post by **Finn** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:34 am

Olivier wrote:How do you pronounce it?
I'd like to be able to say it!

Exactly as it's written

Ie. you don't try to pronounce it at all, a is a, e is e, i is i etc.

and don't drop any letter out. For example i's in English word crisis are pronounced differently, we don't do it.

Antti · Post by **Antti** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:41 pm

Finn wrote:For example i's in English word crisis are pronounced differently, we don't do it.

in Finnish they are always pronounced like the second i in crisis

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 10:43 pm

Craft mailed me a .wav file in which he said that sentence.
He wanted to mail it to you, Olivier, but he couldn't find your e-mail adress.

So I uploaded it, you can find it at:
http://users.pandora.be/tiger/euro/Makuasia.wav

In Dutch it's (I think) "Over smaak valt niet te twisten."
And in Frech (again, I think) "Des goûts et des couleurs il n'y a pas à disputer."

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:06 am

jaker wrote:No, I'm sorry Olivier, the points were my own invention

Only 39/100 ?

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:08 am

Tiger wrote:Craft mailed me a .wav file in which he said that sentence.
He wanted to mail it to you, Olivier, but he couldn't find your e-mail adress.

So I uploaded it, you can find it at:
http://users.pandora.be/tiger/euro/Makuasia.wav

In Dutch it's (I think) "Over smaak valt niet te twisten."
And in Frech (again, I think) "Des goûts et des couleurs il n'y a pas à disputer."

Nice voice indeed!

It sounds hard to pronounce for a poor latin...

K3lvin · Post by **K3lvin** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:40 am

Olivier wrote:Nice voice indeed!

It sounds hard to pronounce for a poor latin...

If you want to hear how Finnish text is being pronounced you can use http://www.mikropuhe.com/demo.asp

Just type/copy the text and press the "kuuntele puhe" -button.

BTW is there similar sites in some other languages than English and Finnish?

Wouter1 · Post by **Wouter1** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 12:58 pm

What's the history behind the flag of Finland?