I suppose it's circular and the problem was that I was speaking having already qualified my opinion as dependent on the language a person already knows and this person kept taking my comments as though I was trying to state some objective fact.

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Oh the anglocentric part of it was actually a comment I made about what things might make English difficult. The person said my thinking was anglocentric, or at least eurocentric, and gave their opinion based on having worked with speakers of East Asian languages 🤷🏻

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www.maptap.gg October 31 93🏆 100🎯 90👑 93🏆 99🔥 Final score: 949 Ok, no. 5 was kinda local for me, from a global pov

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I'm in a historians' group (for some reason 🤷‍♂️) and it seems like everyone studies the sixteenth century, or the twentieth, or they are just anthropologists who hang out with historians.

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It sure would be nice if our knowledge of maritime contact around the Arabian Sea was less dependent on colonial sources.

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