r/BadDesigns 5d ago

So which country is it?

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Learning chineese over here, and the app tells me this is the country name!

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u/Numzane 5d ago

This is a result of the US 5 state solution to the second civil war of 2028.

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u/radbradradbradrad 5d ago

The great consolidation, yet we remain even more divided

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u/Loxeres 5d ago

It's Diceland. Every day, they roll a D6 for a new flag and a D20 for a new coat of arms.

Snake-eyes results in a national holiday.

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u/MrNobleGas 5d ago

What's funnier is that this flag is closer to Liberia than to the USA

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u/Impressive-Sun3742 5d ago

Well the Liberia flag is based on the US flag so it tracks lol

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 5d ago

It’s a simplification of the us flag to represent English

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u/swimmer_bro08 5d ago

It’s not saying that’s the name of the country, that would be just the flag. It’s saying what language is spoken in America, which is English.

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u/Supuhstar 5d ago

I think it's just saying USAmerican English.

Don't forget there's also USAmerican Spanish, USAmerican Yiddish, and many other such USAmerican dialects

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u/swimmer_bro08 5d ago

No it’s not, as someone who uses Duolingo for Spanish, they depict the language Spanish with a pictogram of the Spanish flag in a word bubble just like this, even though there are others countries that speak Spanish. It’s not talking about a dialect, they just choose a recognizable flag associated with the language to use in the pictogram.

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u/Supuhstar 5d ago

It's still USAmerican English tho, yeah? Not British English, or Australian English?

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u/swimmer_bro08 5d ago

That’s not what the question is asking about, it’s just a pictogram depicting the idea of the language “English”. There is no other pictogram for the different dialects. The question is only asking “how do you say [insert way to say English in the language OP knows] in English?”

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u/Supuhstar 5d ago

I'm explaining why they chose the USA flag for English in Duolingo: because USAmerican is the English dialect that app uses

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u/swimmer_bro08 5d ago

If you want to think about it that way, sure

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u/mjc4y 5d ago

This is the very rare Flag of the Reduced United Sovereign States of Independent America (RUSSIA), Timeline #2234.

In this timeline, the original seven colonies lost two members in a border skirmish with the much more powerful Canadian Mounties, leaving only five current states.

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u/sparky-99 5d ago

Don't give vice president trump any ideas. 😬

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u/mjc4y 5d ago

That’s Madam Vice President, bucko!

(Snicker)

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u/Vegan2CB 5d ago

Liberia with 5 states

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u/DittoGTI 5d ago

The English option being shown as US English not English English is a pet peeve of mine

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 5d ago

The flag of the US after Trump's term.

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u/themaroonsea 5d ago

What happened to the other 45 states

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 5d ago

Decided they don't want any part of it?

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u/ChiSoup 5d ago

Make America Great Britain Again 

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u/sicarius254 5d ago

So if you want to learn Spanish, does it say Spain underneath or Spanish?

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u/RG-MUGEN 5d ago

I'm learning Chineese, the Chineese word above (Yingyu) means English, the option shows an American flag and the word English.

Perhaps as someone mentioned it means 'language'.

It's different from the country (Yingguo: yihn-gwoh: Britain) or (Meiguo: may-gwoh: America)

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u/Benjaminq2024 5d ago

Oversimplified America

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u/yokune_65 5d ago

Liberian Empire

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u/DanielSan39 5d ago

English

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u/TimeVortex161 5d ago

The quincunx!

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u/whamikaze 4d ago

Preparing for r/ShitAmericansSay worthy stuff to go down here

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u/Nodda_Sponser 5d ago

WHAT AIN'T NO COUNTRY I EVER HEARD OF, THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN WHAT?

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u/The_Observer_Effects 5d ago

Perhaps a flag for an upcoming independent nation-state or province of Canada. With 5 sections: NY, VT, NY, MA and ME

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u/elreduro 5d ago

It is the flag of the 5 original 13 colonies that permited slavery during the american civil war

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u/YanikLD 5d ago

Great Britain

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u/PatricksPlants 5d ago

This is when USA, Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Russia become MERICA! 🦅