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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social

Large swaths of Africa speak French because they sat down and soberly decided to pick up a European language as an elective. They just happened to settle on the one that lets them go "hon hon hon"

sep 1, 2025, 3:38 pm • 25 0

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social

A good chunk of south Asia was called “French Indochina” for the better part of a century because the residents there thought it sounded poetic, that’s all.

sep 1, 2025, 3:49 pm • 4 0 • view