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		TeMPOraL on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initi... > England didn't take words from French, the French inserted them by force. Is "reverse cultural appropriation" a thing then, or do we have a better phrase for when it's no longer appropriate for a population to use words that were inserted into their language by force?

ZeroGravitas on Dec 20, 2022 [–]

They fight back by pronouncing it horribly:

“L'anglais n'est que du français mal prononcé”

“English is little more than badly pronounced French”

-- D'Artagnan in Vingt ans après

aebtebeten on Dec 21, 2022 | [–]

murky buckup poor lead !

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