How the 'rabble' gave Sarkozy a lesson on the power of language
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1640780,00.html
Sheila Pulham
Saturday November 12, 2005
The Guardian
The violent unrest in France has been a big story on Guardian
Unlimited. We've had daily news updates, an interactive guide, a photo
gallery of burning cars and buildings and audio dispatches from our
Paris correspondent, Jon Henley.
On our News blog we tracked a barrage of blogs set up to rail against
the authorities and mourn the two teenagers whose deaths set off the
riots. Some of the sites - "Douna et Zyed", "sarkodead" and "hardcore"
- were swiftly closed down after inflammatory comments were posted, and
police questioned two teenagers. I wrote on News blog about the
interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy's use of the word racaille to
describe the rioters, an epithet believed to have fuelled the
disturbances. The word has been widely translated as "scum", although
the literal equivalent is "rabble", which the Guardian has now adopted.
Mathieu Kassovitz
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/4d3c8a1998384928
Nicolas Sarkozy
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c23370d202262635
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