If political language can be a weapon

Rarely does an issue of translation become a hot topic, especially making international headlines. But it all depends on the choice of words, and – most of all – on the person who uses them. When the French president said in a recent interview that he wanted to “fuck off” people who refused to be vaccinated, he unleashed the so-called fecal storm in his country and pushed foreigners journalists to hurry through their dictionaries to find out exactly. meaning of this expression.

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