Posted on 11/11/2005 7:48:35 AM PST by Dallas59
Sounds like a job for the French Grammar Investigator!
Inspector Tutu!
correct. Let's put on our Sunday school behaviour and please the goddless press.
Of course some of those terrorists burned our troops alive or strung their burning bodies up on bridge abutments to entertain their children...who loved it!
Aggressive police? Good grief. Funny, the cameras caught this stuff, but not the faces of the many violent rioters.
""tu" - from my french class - years ago, "tu" is used when you're familiar with someone, like you friends or family. "Vou" for someone you don't know or a teacher or superior. I don't think "tu" is automatically 'disrespectful'"
It's similar in German. "Du" is familiar, used with friends, family and anyone else that is well-known to you. "Sie" is formal, used respectfully in social situations, both with people unfamiliar to you, and to your "betters." Germans can get quite upset, if you're being overly familiar. It is seen as disrespectful. The French would likely be the same, but less rigidly demanding in every instance.
Guess I'm a just an American redneck: the French show signs of having `nads, and they catch hell.
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"Disrespectful to the 'Religion of Peace'. Can you see we are serious?"
I'm I the only one that sees this as a setup of the Media...these kids are on their very best behavior and they just happen to be caught on camera. Thousands of others are running around throwing fire bombs, but these kids are polite as a Sunday school girl? Sounds like a hit piece to me...and the Muslim Yutes were in on it! Typicaly MSM BS IMHO.
"Sounds like a hit piece to me"
It was obvious entrapment, yes. This will likely enflame the situation further as well. It has a great deal of propaganda value.
In that context, it is indeed automatically disrespectful. "Tu" is used when you're addressing a social inferior, such as a child (even a stranger) or a servant, or to a friend. You say "vous" to anyone who out-ranks you. That's why using "vous" is used when talking to strangers, the way we use "sir."
But I think "tu" is considered correct usage when talking to criminals.
lmao at u guys. U folks crack me up.
Trash talk? Yes. Racism? No.
"U folks crack me up."
How so?
You are entirely correct (except for your spelling of "vous"). One would always refer to an official, elder, parent, teacher, etc. as "vous." Essentially, the cop was acting in an official capacity, representing the state, and should be referred to as "vous." The yute was demanding "equal" treatment when there was no cause for it. It's as silly as Charlie Brown insisting that Miss Oglethorpe refer to him as "Mr. Brown."
Nah you are not the only one. I think we here in the US are just so use to the MSM setting up police and our military to look like bad guys that we expect no less of the French press.
Yes, he's a French Muslim version of Eddie Haskell. Polite with authority figures but a bully and a punk to the defenseless.
Can't help but think of the scene from Holy Grail with the French castle guards:
"I fart in your general direction."
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberry!"
I keep wondering when the French Foreign Legion will be brought in to clean things up! If the jihadstinians think the anit-riot police are "racist" or "disrespectful", they ain't seen nothing yet!
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