• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Jesus, why did they choose that name? I get that it means truth, but surely it was tainted by the then 88 year old newspaper in the country that colonized yours? Imagine if an Algerian person, fed up with French interference in their media, founded the Algerian newspaper, Le Monde.

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          4 days ago

          Seeing how popular the name is, I suspect it’s just a very generic newspaper name, like how a lot of English-language newspapers have Times in their names. For example, India has The Times of India and The Hindustan Times, despite the name coming from a former colonizer.

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            4 days ago

            I can understand that, but I suspect that neither calls itself The Times. In countries with a large newspaper known as a Times, The Times is called The London Times to differentiate itself