The Anglo-Saxon is not American or British but a French alter-ego | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-anglo-saxon-is-not-american-or-british-but-a-french-alter-ego

The French counter-revolution has its best surgeons put the heads back on the bodies, in fact you’ll get an extra head if you ask nicely.

Near its shores, if you can call them that, lies a stone coffin. It is overgrown by a rose bush and something is written on it in French.

Languages can be alloyed like metals: Wordsmiths like to add a little French for elegance, or German for philosophic toughness.