[Freebase-discuss] Flag-having thing proposal

[Jeff Prucher]

You could, but you wouldn't get very far. They really are used differently.


On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Barak Michener <barakmich at google.com>wrote:

> Couldn't you make the same argument for coat of arms bearer?
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Barak Michener <barakmich at google.com>
> wrote:
> >> We have "Coat of Arms Bearer" for countries, why not simply "Flag
> Bearer"?
> >> At least that's a semi-discoverable term (if you had to guess from the
> >> outside, much moreso (and shorter) than flag-having-thing)
> >
> > Unfortunately, it means something different.  A flag bearer is someone
> > who carries a flag, not the entity that the flag is a symbol for.
> >
> > Tom
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