you ever think about how associating languages with flags means that even if those countries stop existing in the future, we'll probably still end up remembering their flags?
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@Felthry Mostly I think about how there's a lot of politics bound up in which flag you associate with a given language.

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@terrana That too. I think the use of flags for languages has kinda died out, at least; it was really common in the 00s for language selects in video games, but you don't see it much anymore, usually just the names of the languages written out

sometimes the ISO language codes
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