Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted

Re:Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I... by quadfour on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:19PM (#8331489)

Looking great, just a small pet peeve, in the coming soon section, above portuguese you have the brazil flag, feels kinda weird being portuguese and seeing that :)

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Re:Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I... by jmcannon on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:24PM (#8331523)

I know, I know - I'm sorry. Despite some of the objections, I just think flags do make great language icons. I do understand that complaints, though.

In that particular case, we chose the Brazilian flag because the list and audio is target at Brazilian Portuguese. We should probably explicitly write "Brazilian."

Interestingly, we couldn't find a flag icon for Arabic that was neutral enough. So we just chose the green color from the Arab League flag (which I guess could itself be controversial) and wrote "Arabic" in white text.

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Re:Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I... by alexbecker on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:28PM (#8331552)

I would write "Portuguese (Brazil)" rather than Brazilian, similar to how you often see "English (US)" or "English (UK)". If I saw "Brazilian" my first thought would be "whoever wrote this doesn't know that Brazil speaks Portuguese".

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Re:Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I... by jmcannon on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:37PM (#8331604)

Haha, right - I was thinking "Brazilian Portuguese."

Though, we will be launching Mexican and Canadian soon as well!

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