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Yeah it sounds like a bit of a just-so story to me. There's nothing special about English that makes it a particularly good lingua franca. By and large the countries colonised by Spain speak Spanish, and the countries colonised by Britain speak English. One or two of those happen to have become economically significant on the back of all that theft, genocide and slavery, so English became more globally useful.
It's a badge of shame really.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ /
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2023-12-31 00:36:37
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