Re: "a bit of a diversion from the more important points I was trying to make..."
I don't think it was "Lazy recycling" of any Anglo triumphalism. I was just stating something I thought was possibly true as a rhetorical flourish. If my Anglo triumphalism is predicated on the number of words in the English language, then you'd be right to criticise but that wasn't the case at all. Much better that my triumphalism is predicated on something a bit more tangible, like, we beat Germany in WW2 or once had an Empire on which the sun never set., don't yo think, eh what?
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