, The video is still available on the newspaper's website at
, As Richard Watts writes: 'to go on record baldly and commit the FTA without any redressive action clearly involves the greatest amount of face threat, vol.87, 2003.
, See Richard Watt's study of 'semi-formulaic EPMs' and 'forms of indirectness, pp.189-200, 2003.
, Act of 1881 still penalizes offence to the President. Interestingly enough, the last time it was used was against a man who had written 'casse-toi, pov' con' on a placard during a protest held against Nicolas Sarkozy's official visit in Laval, 2008.
, Le «casse-toi, pauvre con» de Sarkozy fait polémique, Le Figaro, 23 February. It was written on the evening of the incident and is the only article still available on the Internet to provide a large and varied sample of reactions and comments on the incident, 2008.
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, Peu de monde aurait accepté d'être traité ainsi sans rien dire, c'est pourquoi il faut apprécier là un président humain, avec les défauts que cela comporte' ('Few people would have accepted to be treated like this and say nothing. Therefore, we should enjoy having a human president, with the flaws that go with it'), 'Je ne vois pas pourquoi Monsieur Sarkozy devrait rester correct avec les gens, s'ils sont en premier incorrects et agressifs avec le Président de la République' ('I don't see why Mr Sarkozy should remain correct with people who are being incorrect and agressive with the President of the Republic in the first place, Sarkozy a [?] su redevenir un simple être humain' ('Sarkozy was able to behave as a simple human being')
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, celui à qui il s'adressait ne l'a pourtant pas injurié!' ('the one he was talking to had not called him names'), 'aucun mot grossier dans la bouche du monsieur' ('no swear word came from the mouth of the man'), anonymous comments
, He makes a lot of language mistakes, ignoring grammar, misusing vocabulary and syntax, and omitting verb agreement. When he speaks in public, the President thinks it wise to mistreat, intentionally or not, the French language and he sometimes ventures to use vulgar terms and turns of phrase. In order to put an immediate stop to those offences against the culture of our country and its reputation across the world, an interview dated from, vol.14, 2008.
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