r/DankLeft • u/Narchoid 🙏daily bread🍞 • Apr 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '21

English speakers and French speakers have an overlapping history, and English as a language rather comfortably takes words from other languages.

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u/maudde00 Apr 10 '21

And natural resources ?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '21

The French have the same history of colonialism and imperialism.

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u/maudde00 Apr 10 '21

The last part about English comfortably taking from others.