The worst thing about the word "Anglo-Saxon" trending is how it's invited all the racist white people from the UK to weigh in
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Not quite French- he grew up with his Mom in Acquitaine, and spoke Occitan, a separate Romance language that’s closest to Catalan
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One of my favorite myths that crop up is the projection of the modern world's structure onto the past.
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And now I'm laughing at Patrick Stewart playing him in Men in Tights. I guess playing Frenchmen with inexplicable English accents is just his thing
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That irony: Even the irony of that nation-building forgery done in the middle ages is so strong, that nobody even mocks that in an absurdist comedy about the time! And Rabbi Tuckman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England#Persecution_and_expulsion … Well. Those were not merry times. :(
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*Norman French and Occitan
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*Norman language.
French language and Norman language are two different languages. But both of them are "Oïl"-languages (the same linguistical group)
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He also spent his little time as possible in England. I sincerely doubt if he had any special affection for the place.
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Richard used war in the Middle East to stabilize politics at home. It's good that nobody tries to foil today's political landscape onto medieval now just wait a sec, I'm getting a phone call...
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Just because it's a masterpiece... alas, only available in French (with subtitles)https://youtu.be/ij40yESX1qM
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To be fair, he wrote a pretty bangin acoustic pop song in Occitanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZ3mSVcSKg …
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