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> The point is that the term, as used in English, was incorrectly appropriated from another language. Language is not appropriated, it is used. A language is n
by barry-cotter 4y ago
> The point is that the term, as used in English, was incorrectly appropriated from another language.
Language is not appropriated, it is used. A language is not property.
The Angles, Saxons and Jutes never called themselves Anglo-Saxons. They were intimately aware of differences between themselves that are lost to us.