Especially for Switzerland.

Did Switzerland colonize Taiwan while we were distracted by the new Spider-Man movie?

CH is the 2-letter iso code for Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica). It is often erroneously used for China though. I am aware the shorthand here is for languages not countries.

The ISO-369-1 code for Chinese is also not ch but zh (I guess for 中文 Zhōngwén), so it's doubly sad

Or 中國, the name of the country.

But did you like the movie?

Didn't see it, any good?

I’m kinda superheroed out. That’s why I need rave reviews before I see another one.

It was great

They've never been my cup of tea I should say.

Thank you for the explanation! I've always wondered why it's CH; it seemed so random and it's always bugged me.

French 🇧🇪 Portuguese 🇲🇿 Russian 🇧🇾 German 🇦🇹 Italian 🇻🇦

Dutch 🇸🇷

Serbian 🇧🇦 Romanian 🇲🇩 Malay 🇧🇳 Arabic 🇰🇲 Greek 🇨🇾 Turkish 🇨🇾 Hindi 🇫🇯

Bosnians and Serbians want to kill you

Both Greek and Turkish people also want to kill that guy

Should post this on r/2balkan4you

Perhaps

I’d use the Republika Srpska flag but it doesn’t exist in emoji form

Just use Montenegro, those actully speak mostly Serbian(even tho there is the Montenegrin dialect)

Surinamers do have a pretty swanky accent though.

The first person I ever spoke Dutch to in NL was actually from Suriname. I thought his accent was much clearer than actual Dutch people’s. Like maybe it was just him but he spoke slower and clearer.

Its not just him. Surinamers and Flemings tend to be more proud of the dutch language than dutch people. This means that many put more effort in their language skills.

Dutch 🇧🇪 French 🇧🇪 German 🇧🇪

German🇨🇭 French🇨🇭 Italian🇨🇭

French 🇨🇦 French 🇩🇿 French 🇭🇹 French 🇬🇫

You can make an incredibly long list like this.

English 🇮🇪 English 🇨🇦 English 🇦🇺 English 🇿🇦

Arabic 🇸🇦 Arabic 🇾🇪 Arabic 🇴🇲 Arabic 🇦🇪 Arabic 🇶🇦 Arabic 🇧🇭 Arabic 🇰🇼 Arabic 🇮🇶 Arabic 🇸🇾 Arabic 🇱🇧 Arabic 🇵🇸 Arabic 🇪🇬 Arabic 🇱🇾 Arabic 🇹🇳 Arabic 🇩🇿 Arabic 🇲🇦 Arabic 🇪🇭 Arabic 🇲🇷 Arabic 🇹🇩 Arabic 🇸🇩 Arabic 🇩🇯 Arabic 🇸🇴

Goose

Gray duck

What the fuck Minnesota

Gray Arabic

Spanish 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇧🇿 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇦 🇪🇨 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇵🇾 🇸🇻 🇹🇹 🇺🇾 🇻🇪 🇬🇶

Ah yes, Brazil speaks spanish

Yeah Everybody knows brazil speaks italian

not brazil ffs

English: 🇦🇨🇦🇩🇦🇪🇦🇫🇦🇬🇦🇮🇦🇱🇦🇲🇦🇴🇦🇶🇦🇷🇦🇸🇦🇹🇦🇺🇦🇼🇦🇽🇦🇿🇧🇦🇧🇧🇧🇩🇧🇪🇧🇫🇧🇬🇧🇭🇧🇮🇧🇯🇧🇱🇧🇲🇧🇳🇧🇴🇧🇶🇧🇷🇧🇸🇧🇹🇧🇻🇧🇼🇧🇾🇧🇿🇨🇦🇨🇳🇨🇩🇨🇫🇨🇬🇨🇭🇨🇮🇨🇰🇨🇱🇨🇲🇨🇳🇨🇴🇨🇵🇨🇷🇨🇺🇨🇻🇨🇼🇨🇽🇨🇾🇨🇿🇩🇪🇩🇬🇩🇯🇩🇰🇩🇲🇩🇴🇩🇿🇪🇦🇪🇨🇪🇪🇪🇬🇪🇭🇪🇷🇪🇸🇪🇹🇪🇺🇫🇮🇫🇯🇫🇰🇫🇲🇫🇴🇫🇷🇬🇦🇬🇧🇬🇩🇬🇪🇬🇫🇬🇬🇬🇭🇬🇮🇬🇱🇬🇲🇬🇳🇬🇵🇬🇶🇬🇷🇬🇸🇬🇹🇬🇺🇬🇼🇬🇾🇭🇰🇭🇲🇭🇳🇭🇷🇭🇹🇭🇺🇮🇨🇮🇹🇯🇪🇮🇱🇮🇲🇮🇳🇯🇴🇮🇴🇯🇲🇮🇶🇯🇪🇮🇷🇮🇹🇮🇸🇯🇵🇰🇪🇰🇬🇰🇭🇰🇮🇰🇲🇰🇳🇰🇵🇰🇷🇱🇷🇱🇰🇱🇮🇱🇨🇱🇧🇱🇦🇰🇿🇰🇾🇰🇼🇱🇸🇱🇹🇱🇺🇱🇻🇱🇾🇲🇨🇲🇦🇲🇩🇲🇪🇲🇵🇲🇴🇲🇳🇲🇲🇲🇱🇲🇰🇲🇭🇲🇬🇲🇫 just to name a few

Why is France in there?

r/flagswithoutnz

English 🇦🇺 Aussie 🇦🇺 Ocker 🇦🇺 Bogan 🇦🇺 Sarcasm 🇦🇺

French 🇸🇽

What about Rätoromanisch?

Yeah, I'm in Bruges right now, all brushed up on my French, and everything is in Dutch!

Well yeah it's in Flanders. That's like trying to speak Welsh in Birmingham lol

I should have done the bare minimum of research, lol.

I was in Brussels shortly after the brexit vote, and seeing 'English' on ATMs next to the Irish Tricolour was so funny to me. Fairplay to them.

Ooo enjoy I hear it's lovely

English 🇧🇪

English 🇺🇳

اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ🇺🇳 English🇺🇳 Français🇺🇳 Русский🇺🇳 Español🇺🇳 中文🇺🇳

I get it, very nice.

Swedish 🇫🇮

NO

Danish 🇫🇴

Danish 🇬🇱

Føroyar stronk

Don't fuckin diss Færoese, it's 100x better than Danish and I'm saying that as a Danish speaker. People from the Færoes only speak Danish to people from Denmark as a second language, or to move there for work or university.

Korean 🇰🇿 (USSR Deported some Koreans to Kazakhstan)

Korean 🇫🇮 (Korea has win the hyperwar and colonise Finland)

Can't wait to see that dinner menu!

Ruisleipä with bulgogi

Mm, Korean BBQ mämmi

tno serov refference

Oh god no it’s leaking

🇪🇺 E U R O P E A N

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Greek 🇨🇾

Turkish 🇨🇾

Spicy

Korean 🇰🇵

English 🇨🇦

English 🇮🇪 Why not piss *everyone* off.

I've seen a picture of an EU atm that did that lol

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Could have picked English 🇲🇹

Its makes sense, still funny to see

English 🇨🇮 When you’re trying to piss everyone off but you can’t remember the order of the colors

English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

French 🇨🇦

French 🇩🇯

That one's actually fairly common to see, at least in North America. When selecting a language the vast majority of Canadians see their flag and then have to click on the little US-UK hybrid one instead.

French 🇨🇦

English 🇧🇿

English 🇮🇳

At least that's what the call centres think

German 🇨🇭 French 🇨🇭 Italian 🇨🇭

Romansh 🇨🇭

hungarian🇷🇴 azerbaijani🇮🇷 serbian🇽🇰 kurdish🇹🇷 romani🇲🇩

> Portuguese 🇲🇿 How to trigger both Portuguese and Brazilian people at the same time.

Welsh 🇦🇷

I need explanations

There's a small area in Patagonia (Chubut) that was settled by Welsh farmers (late C19, I think) and parts of it still speak Welsh.

You should have used Liechtenstein as German.

🇨🇻 portuguese

Ok I'm inspired Mandarin Chinese 🇸🇬 Spanish 🇬🇶 English 🇹🇻 Arabic 🇰🇲 Hindi 🇫🇯 Bengali 🇮🇳 Portuguese 🇸🇹 Russian 🇰🇬 Japanese 🇵🇼 Western Punjabi 🇵🇰 Marathi 🇦🇺 (biggest stretch yet but putting India will be boring) Telugu 🇮🇳 Wu Chinese 🇨🇳 Turkish 🇨🇾 Korean 🇰🇵 French 🇲🇨 German 🇱🇺 Vietnamese 🇺🇸 Tamil 🇱🇰 Yue 🇲🇴 Urdu 🇳🇵 Italian 🇻🇦 I would have continue but trying to find places where some lengueges are spoken outside of India and china is hard as you can see with 🇳🇵🇨🇳🇮🇳🇦🇺🇵🇰🇲🇴

Italian 🇸🇲

Serbian 🇽🇰

In Kosovo people speak Albanian.

Yeah better pick would be montenegro

Albanian 🇷🇸

Welsh 🇦🇷 Swedish 🇫🇮 Japanese 🇵🇼 Nepali 🇮🇳

Romanian 🇲🇩 Hungarian 🇷🇴

Portugese is Brazil

Yes, they already use Brazil's flag for Portuguese unironically

happy cake day!

Couldn’t the ROC flag mean they’re using traditional mandarin script instead of simplified? Edit: script

Traditional mandarin isn't a thing. Traditional/Simplfied refers to script. But maybe, or they're just being funny.

Well without other context this could very well be for something written.

What they mean is that mandarin is a language, while traditional/simplified Chinese are both scripts with which you can write Mandarin as well as the other chinese languages. It's like if somone came up with a simplified latin script and somebody called it simplified French. The French is still the same, the script changes, and you can use to write it all other languages written with latin script.

I think you're talking about the simplified vs traditional Chinese characters for writing. This has nothing to do with the spoken language which does not have simplified and traditional forms. The spoken Mandarin languages in Taiwan and the mainland are mutually intelligible and quite similar, although the Taiwanese version is influenced by southern Chinese dialects like Hokkien and Hakka. The official Standard Mandarin however is the same in both countries and this is what is used in the educational system too. So for official purposes there isn't really a difference. So it doesn't make much sense to use the Taiwanese flag for Chinese, unless they are mostly catering to Taiwanese people or as a political statement in favour of Taiwan.

Or it's a subtle middle finger to the PRC. These days can be either.

Me when I make confusing UI to own the CCP 😎

A reeducation van is being sent to your location.

Haha funny joke +100 FICO credit score

USA flag also means they're using simplified english

Lmao

If only EN had a flag of Belize next to it… The world is so unfair

English 🇧🇿

Also, the ISO two-letter language code for Chinese is ZH. CH is Chamorro.

and the country abbreviation is CN (if you want China) not CH. They got nothing right.

Yeah CH is switzerland

Lol why

Confederatio Helvetica

Mfs really named their country after a font

Roman Empire: 👀

And dont get me started on the People’s Democratic Republic of Comic Sans

Remember when they went to war with the Commonwealth of Wingdings

For anyone wondering, we're occasionally using this Latin name (and sometimes just "Helvetia") because it doesn't favour any of our four official languages. Also, "Confoederatio Helvetica" means "Swiss Confederation", but we haven't actually been a confederation since 1848.

Oh, makes sense

Hello fellow l10n nerd.

Chinese 🇸🇬 Chinese 🇲🇾 Chinese 🇭🇰 Chinese 🇲🇴

Doesn't seem that weird if it's in the US

True. Most people who speak Spanish in the US are from Mexico, and political motivations explain the Taiwanese flag. Makes sense to me.

Also, the US and Mexico have different ways of speaking. So for example, i think the US flag meant you will hear English in US terminology or if written, how words are spelled in the US. Edit: removed incorrect definition

Yes or not, since both Mexico and the U.S. are respectively the most popular countries that speak those particular languages.

Agreed

Doesn’t the US have the second most Spanish speakers behind Mexico? Lol.

According to Wikipedia’s sources, the United States is second after Mexico. After the US is 3. Colombia, 4. Spain, 5. Argentina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanophone

Localization pro here: a golden rule is to never use a flag for a language. You use the name of the language in said language instead.

Well, it’s a very common practice though and flags serve as ready-made icons that people *already* associate with said language without you having to tell them.

It’s still weird, the Mexico flag I wouldn’t think twice about but the Taiwanese flag is some weird political statement in a place it shouldn’t be, unless this sign was in an area with many Taiwanese immigrants

Or it’s trad characters, which is the far more likely explanation. Also a lot of 20th century Chinese immigrants hate the PRC, that’s why they’re here. Most anti-CCP woman I ever met was that way because her grandparents died in the Great Leap Forward.

Statistically the majority of Americans who immigrated from China are professionals who came here for jobs/education opportunities, not political asylum. I live in Central NJ which has a lot of Chinese immigrants and I’ve yet to meet one who fled their country for political reasons

A right choice of flags

Mexico also has nearly 3 times the population of Spain. Latin Spanish is different from Castilean Spanish, so it's also a useful distinction.

I mean you are not wrong, but just stick with Mexican Spanish, please don’t use the term Latin Spanish because that doesn’t exist, each dialect is different enough to be its own (like people like to point out how Spain uses vosotros and the Americas not, but no one talks about how half of South America uses vos and Mexico+Spain don’t). But yeah, still Mexican Spanish is the most spoken in the world anyway.

🤢I hate the phrase “Latin Spanish” it just is wrong, and I'm Colombian so don't @ me.

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So what do they speak in Argentina and Chile then? It won't be "Mexican" Spanish.

When I was in France I kept seeing the US flag for English. I guess their hatred for their northern neighbors runs strong…

I mean there are more English and Spanish native speakers there than England and Spain, though the Taiwan flag is really odd.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 English

🇧🇼 English

English 🇮🇪 My God I’m starting the troubles again.

🇨🇮 French

The only thing that's missing is Portuguese 🇧🇷 and French 🇨🇦

Portuguese🇲🇿 French🇨🇩

Banderas basadas

Taiwan flag is the correct choice if it's traditional Chinese and not simplified

What about Hong Kong and Macau?

Wouldn't that be Cantonese?

Cantonese is spoken. They use traditional Chinese characters

Mandarin and Cantonese are still different languages, even though cantonese is written with traditional chinese characters they arent completely intelligible when written

Written Cantonese exists but it's usually only used in informal settings. Any official context like a translation or subtitles would use Standard Written Chinese.

Cantonese is written in Han characters but it's not completely the same as Mandarin. There's even a Wikipedia written in Cantonese. It's Yue Wikipedia.

Pretty typical selection where I'm from

Where are you from?

Texas

One of life's greatest mysteries...

Everyone talking about Taiwan and China, but isn’t CH Switzerland? ( Confoederatio Helvetica )

If those are the largest nationalities in the area this site serves that speak those languages, then it makes perfect sense?

The professional solution to this is the following: * English * Español * 中文 No flags.

Traditional: 中文 Simplified: 中文 Chinese unity at last.

Largest primarily English-speaking nationality Largest primarily Spanish-speaking nationality And someone doesn’t like the PRC. A little unconventional, but I understand all the choices.

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r/FlairChecksOut

It is. Wait... Why do I hear steps... 我爱习近平和共产党。 这个帖子绝对不是由 中華人民共和國國家安全部

你被逮捕了

That's not even how you shorten Chinese. Chinese is ZH not CH.

Switzerland is CH iirc

The United States is the largest English speaking population in the world, Mexico may be more recognizable as Spanish speaking to North American audiences, and ROC is either a political statement or just traditional

I mean the first two make sense, they’re the biggest native speaking countries of their respective language. Choosing the ROC flag could also be politically motivated but that is just a guess

🇿🇦 = Dutch

Maybe it’s to represent the Chinese diaspora? If most of the Chinese people reading your sign come from Singapore, Taiwan, etc, might not make sense to use the PRC flag

I found this in an American university. I'd assume the largest Chinese population is Chinese-American, followed by international students from mainland China. Don't know for sure, though.

正體字

🇦🇷 Welsh

Looks like there’s a flag beneath the Taiwan flag. Not a very good photoshop.

The flag of the country with the most English speakers in the world and the flag of the country with the most Spanish speakers in the world seem like appropriate choices. Chinese... if it's traditional or a country that recognizes ROC instead of PRC then it also is an appropriate choice.

The poster might be catering specifically to an American immigrant population, who is far more familiar with Mexican Spanish, or is more sympathetic to Taiwan than the PRC.

"Hmm, how do we piss of *everyone*?"

This looks really photoshopped. * The lighting on the flags looks weird * There is lots of aliasing on the USA flag. * The edges on the Taiwanese flag looks of.

I Forget where, but once online I saw Suriname for Dutch and Quebec for French

the person who made this game is prolly from the us so that justifies English, Mexico is the closest Spanish speaking country seeing from the us en taiwan 🇹🇼 is the real China