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   Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 20:14:03 JST Steve Herman

   Kremlin spokesman says President Putin accepted Tucker Carlson’s interview request because the former Fox News program host “stands in clear contrast to the position of the traditional Anglo-Saxon media.” https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/02/07/kremlin-says-putin-agreed-to-interview-with-tucker-carlson-because-he-differs-from-traditional-anglo-saxon-media

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 20:14:01 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     @w7voa This is a mistranslation of a term that's in common use in some Slavic languages (in Polish it's "anglosaski"), which literally translates into "Anglo-Saxon", but really means "English-speaking".

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     Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 20:14:02 JST Steve Herman

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     Some may find the term “Anglo-Saxon media” confounding as that particular ethnic group lost power in Britain nearly 400 years before the invention of the printing press.

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 20:15:51 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     @w7voa There's also the term "anglojęzyczny", which literally means "English-language", but it means anything that's done in English, e.g. the English-language news channel of the Polish state TV. "Anglosaski" implies cultural context.