Food for Thought!!

[djg]

I hadn't heard that island monkeys was a thing.
I'm ok with the term Brit but if you use the old shortened form for the Japanese, for instance, it is most frown upon!
ps can one still use the second half of the word sauer (a food) when referring to a German? Sorry I'm out of touch.

it is a thing. kraut is fine, who cares. we are called piefkes by the schluchtenscheisser and moffen by the käsköppe. it's all a big love fest.

[docsteve]

… and Kartoffeln (potatoes) by the immigrants.


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[RJVB]

You really haven't met many Brits have you?

How can anyone not subject to and compatriot of HRM claim such a thing if the term can only be used among said subjects?

moffen by the käsköppe

Neither has been considered appropriate for quite a while in the country being referred to, not for referring to the recent generations in any case.

My father always claimed English was a dialect of French that existed like the nation thanks to Guillaume le Conquérant ... so Bretons - Wikipedia might give some ideas about how "we" should call "you".

Granbris or Granbers?

[stevo58]

English became the dominant culture worldwide because of their intelligence so I'm not too sure how fitting it is to call them monkeys lol.

The desire to differentiate between tribes is strong, as is (often) the tendency to portray “them” as inferior or subhuman. Are illustrations necessary? The earliest documented example is when Moonwatcher crushed One-Eye’s skull on the Serengeti Plain three million years ago.

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Only thirty percent of English comes from French. Another ten from Latin. And William was just a French-speaking Viking. That tapestry is pretty darn impressive, though.

[RJVB]

English became the dominant culture worldwide because of their intelligence

The start of that sentence alone is no monument to anything but I think it's safe to say that it was a very particular kind of intelligence that led to dominance. Not exactly the sort most people would want to be proud of nowadays IMHO - and in the end they were just lucky that no other nation was more adept at the game or had a longer breath.

Only thirty percent of English comes from French. Another ten from Latin. And William was just a French-speaking Viking.

A French descendant of, yes. The true irony here is that that made him a Normand, and the kind-of ongoing feud between them and the Bretons is a very interesting topic in itself - who knows maybe even the reason the UK is called Grande Bretagne and not Ditto Normandie

[stevo58]

The start of that sentence alone is no monument to anything but I think it's safe to say that it was a very particular kind of intelligence that led to dominance. Not exactly the sort most people would want to be proud of nowadays IMHO - and in the end they were just lucky that no other nation was more adept at the game or had a longer breath.



A French descendant of, yes. The true irony here is that that made him a Normand, and the kind-of ongoing feud between them and the Bretons is a very interesting topic in itself - who knows maybe even the reason the UK is called Grande Bretagne and not Ditto Normandie

Well, both Bretagne and Normandy are lovely areas. And Rouen is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve visited.