🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 13 hours agoAnon thinks the French are poserssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1605arrow-down18
arrow-up1597arrow-down1imageAnon thinks the French are poserssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 13 hours agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoIt’s still how we call this group from France.
minus-squareFozzyOsbourne@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoDo you use it differently to “English”?
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoMaybe it is interchangeable sometimes, but English people would rather point at the UK, while Anglo-Saxons often abusively refers to UK plus majorly white former British colonies, USA, Canada, Australia and New-Zealand.
minus-squareFozzyOsbourne@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoInteresting. I’d probably call that “the anglosphere”, Anglo-Saxon is specifically the pre-Norman-conquest residents of what is now England.
It’s still how we call this group from France.
Do you use it differently to “English”?
Maybe it is interchangeable sometimes, but English people would rather point at the UK, while Anglo-Saxons often abusively refers to UK plus majorly white former British colonies, USA, Canada, Australia and New-Zealand.
Interesting. I’d probably call that “the anglosphere”, Anglo-Saxon is specifically the pre-Norman-conquest residents of what is now England.