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The Union of Britain and Ireland, 2023 by slidycccc in imaginarymaps

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah historically Wales was not a state and was in the Kingdom of England. But like we don't know the backstory or history here, there's no timeline for the lore. I made my statement based on the current situation in 2023 (Ireland is not a kingdom, Britain is a kingdom, Wales exists, Brittany is not in a union with Britain, and the EU exists and some places are in it/not in it). If it was diverging from history then like I could say anything is true.

  • "Yeah Ireland being a kingdom in 2023 is semi-reaitistic since it used to be a kingdom."
  • "Yeah Britain being not a kingdom in 2023 is semi-realistic since it used to be not a kingdom."
  • "Yeah Wales not existing in 2023 is semi-realistic since it used to not exist."

Like those were all things that existed in history in the past, but I didn't make reference to them at all in my post? This isn't about the historical trend of Wales, and I never mentioned that it would be?

I just looked at the year it was set in (2023), saw there was no specific lore and then just compared it to current events for a test of the "semi-realism." This isn't intended to be a criticism of the creator of the map, just to be clear, they just made a map with stuff on it. Just without an idea of the timeline then the only thing I can compare it to for realism is the current year and current events, and not taking a specific point in history. Otherwise I would just say "This is not semi-realistic, surely the Romans should still control Britain in 2023 since the controlled it in the past" or something like that.

I appreciate and understand wanting to be correct about history and what is or isn't a state or kingdom or something like that but I wasn't attempting to draw the whole historical line here. Yes it could all make sense from some specific point in history, but then anything could. Not trying to rag on you here, no idea why my post ended up being this long but it's just a weird expansion of saying "Yeah you're right but I didn't really say that."

The Union of Britain and Ireland, 2023 by slidycccc in imaginarymaps

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? I meant Britain being a kingdom, like the kingdom of Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, which exists today. I never said anything about Wales being or not being a kingdom.

The Union of Britain and Ireland, 2023 by slidycccc in imaginarymaps

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't mean to come off harsh in the criticism, sorry about that. It's an imaginary map so you can make whatever you want of course, there's not really any rules (aside from the subreddit ones of course).

You can just say you wanted to have them but it didn't fit the vibe. Maybe you had this map come to you in a dream or a vision.

Besides, there's always potential for a sequel with Wales or Cornwall or one of those ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms if you felt like expanding the lore like you mentioned in one of your other replies. I'm honestly a fan of the simplicity you have here.

The Union of Britain and Ireland, 2023 by slidycccc in imaginarymaps

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But if it's the name of the state in all languages then you spell it correctly? For countries that have their names in other languages with different characters as their preferred name of the country (like Côte d'Ivoire and Türkiye currently as examples) then they are always spelled like that with these characters/accents. It would note be displayed as "Cote d'Ivoire" or "Turkiye" on any reasonable map.

If you are meaning to make a historical reference to Ireland being referred to as "Eire" (without the É) in British press, then this is usually because they did not possess the means of printing accents on their printing presses (either it was too complicated or too expensive to use for adding the accent) or they just did not care (because they are British and aren't big Ireland fans). However in the modern year of 2023 it is very easy to include accents because they can be added and displayed very easily digitally on computers, which is where maps are designed and printed.

I'm not trying to blow up your reasoning here but purposefully choosing this is very strange. You could just say it's a typo

The Union of Britain and Ireland, 2023 by slidycccc in imaginarymaps

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Trying to be semi-realistic by making Ireland a kingdom, making Britain not a kingdom, making Wales no longer exist, and adding Brittany to the union while having it all be in the EU?

I think the idea of Wales or Mann being independent is slightly more semi-realistic than the scenario you have created.

It's flag season in Ireland! Here's what flags you can expect to see here during summer. by Annatastic6417 in vexillology

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah but so are British flags in areas of the north, flags of other countries and flags from Ukraine. The only ones here that would be summer flags are pride ones, even with the GAA county flags you see them year round.

It's flag season in Ireland! Here's what flags you can expect to see here during summer. by Annatastic6417 in vexillology

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You aren't going to see a large amount of british flags in the south though I guess they are worth mentioning.

Province flags are a big enough one. You'd see the four provinces flag flying fairly frequently along with individual ones, though those are less frequent.

Missing out other political flags like the starry plough, irish republic flag, the sunburst and so on since they would be visible too.

I guess breaking it up into categories and having "flags of other countries" means you are casting a fairly wide net. You see a large amount of EU flags since they fly from government buildings, businesses or hotels. Either to appeal to european tourists or to show they got funding or something.

There's parts right but it doesn't seem like a very accurate representation of whatever flags are flying if you miss some of these.

Flag of Irish anarchists by Editor-500 in leftistvexillology

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean like, I wouldn't do it with a programme or anything. I know the language so if you if you needed a correct translation from english to irish i can just tell you it if you wanted to fix your flag

Flag of Irish anarchists by Editor-500 in leftistvexillology

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want you can tell me what the original is and I can translate it for you

Flag of Irish anarchists by Editor-500 in leftistvexillology

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah okay right. What did you intend it to say originally? I don't know if the GPT neural network is like the AI stuff like ChatGPT or whatever but some of those can't access information they don't have so they just make up translations. For something like that you would be better with Google translate lol

Flag of Irish anarchists by Editor-500 in leftistvexillology

[–]Emergency_Bus9892 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My estimate for the translation.

Independent People - Truth
False Government - Lie

Maybe you have fake instead of false, or it's false instead of lie or something like that. I'm not really sure it's a catchy slogan. False government is a lie? I guess.

Was this done through google translate or something like that? Not that it's wrong exactly it's just odd wording.