Yes, just as white or many non-red flags would. The idea is that other flags are indiscernible from red flags because everything is rose-tinted, and more amusingly the playful combining of two common English expressions.
Although I agree flags are not languages in the case of English different variants are recognized, so if you used an American Flag as your language indicator I would expect I would see a site written in EN-US and would only be confused if color were written as colour.
Flags won’t hoist or wave themselves, red flags doubly so, and they’re a useful determinant of which way the political winds are blowing, and whether they’re shifting.
Well, if the user entered a French flag, and then you show it back to them as a white flag, you may cause a bit of an international incident. Or worse, accusations of telling very old jokes.
Not probably, definitely. It was a tiny thing, but makes the entire country look foolish by calling into question the effectiveness of billions of dollars spent and a large part of world privacy stripped away. In that way, the white flags are an existential threat to a certain element, and something our grandchildren may be reading about in history class.
To you, yes - but how would a Taiwanese or PRC person feel if their opposing flags were used to represent their language? (Or me, as a Brit, seeing the US Flag to represent English...)
Yes, it's true that languages tend to be country-specific (e.g. en-US: USA, en-GB: UK, pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese, etc), but while that's technically true, the majority of Indo-European languages that have spread widely across many nations, don't have enough differences between them to justify using a single specific country flag to represent all of them (namely, en-GB, en-CA, en-AU, and en-US, they're hardly even separate dialects).
In short: Flags identify countries, not languages.
By analogy, it's like using the Java language logo to represent all Java-derived languages (C#, Swift, Golang, Kotlin) because they're mutually-intelligible.
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