Comment by nkrisc
3 days ago
That’s the problem with conflating nations and language.
For example, the very first English video I got was a South African English accent.
3 days ago
That’s the problem with conflating nations and language.
For example, the very first English video I got was a South African English accent.
It works to a first approximation.
Of the five languages I have configured in KDE, three of them are country-specific. So I use the flag indicator, which is far quicker for me to locate and identify out of the corner of my eye than would be a text label (which would require using the retina and thus more time and attention).
Sure, fine for personal uses. I mean broadly and generally.
As for English, the United States has far and away the largest number of native English speakers.
Not that I think the stars and stripes has any more right to represent “English” as a concept any more than the Union Jack. If you’re going on origin, why not the flag of England instead?
I actually really like that idea. The US and UK flags seem to represent more culture than language.
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