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Sure, it’s always hard for those in between. And of course, even though the British Empire is no more, we’re writing here in English :)
by tambourine_man 4y ago
Sure, it’s always hard for those in between.
And of course, even though the British Empire is no more, we’re writing here in English :)
- kergonath 4y ago> Sure, it’s always hard for those in between. It was not particularly pleasant for most people during the empire. Dickensian London was not particularly great. It was not great either for the rural poor in England, or the locals in India. Or the slaves and small farmers in the Roman Empire. We rarely think about the losers when we idealise an empire. > And of course, even though the British Empire is no more, we’re writing here in English :) And Latin was spoken for centuries after the end of the western Roman Empire, even as the eastern part completely reverted to Greek. These things tend to lag a bit.