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Tag: vexillolinguistics

  • Correct Aspect Ratio of the Canton and the Navy Jacks of the United States

    The First Navy Jack and the Navy Union Jack share the aspect ratio of the U.S. flag’s canton, scaled to full dimensions—measured at 1:1.4085 (height to width), or equivalently 71:100. This ensures symbolic and proportional continuity with the parent flag structure, while allowing the canton to function as an independent flag field. The correct aspect…

  • The Flag and the Rattlesnake

    The Flag and the Rattlesnake

    A Foundational Parable of Symbols, Silence, and Sovereignty There are two flags flying in front of the house: the Flag of Palestine and the First Navy Jack, hand-stitched, weatherworn, and fully intentional. To passersby—especially in “these times”—the display seems provocative. Contradictory, even. They look for conflict where there is none, scanning the house not for…

  • Vexillolinguistics of the Flag of Puerto Rico

    Vexillolinguistics of the Flag of Puerto Rico

    Five horizontal stripes alternating red and white, starting and ending in red; blue equilateral triangle at the hoist with a centered upright white five-pointed star of diameter 1/3 to 1/2 the hoist; aspect ratio 2:3.

  • Vexillolinguistics of the POW*MIA Flag

    Vexillolinguistics of the POW*MIA Flag

    Vexillolinguistics, or the study of the language of flag design description, can help improve any flag’s description by incorporating all elements and “trimming the fat” to remove words that might bring ambiguity to the flag design. The POW*MIA Flag is no exception. As the founder of Vexillolinguistics, I hereby offer my vexillolinguistic interpretation of the…