On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Peter Bright wrote:
> > John D Taylor (ROE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Much more striking, and because most non-US citizens probably find the > whole > > debate baffling! (Though maybe Europeans would have had a similar > reaction > > to the original poster if the logo had included a swastika) Think how we'd feel if the logo was red, white and blue with some stars and a stripe. Talk about perverse. An important part of i18n is colour. I wonder if the logo is positive or negative when viewed in Russia/E.Asia. Westerners trying to be cool by taking the piss, or finally creating a nice logo. > As such, the communist Chinese/Soviet imagery seems quite bizarre. These > are not regimes that one would wish to deliberately associate with. The > logo seems quite perverse. +1 feather. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
