samedi 12 février 2011

"Get out!", A word that calls from Tunis to Cairo via Paris



(AFP) - There was one day
PARIS - Get out! : From Tunisia to Egypt through France and Italy, the injunction "just nasty," says a linguist, has emerged with the force of a tsunami libertarian distant metaphor of a word Germain originally positive.
"This is the word that short of revolt revolting!", Marianne launched in its latest issue, on stopping this "word-projectile" passed into everyday language in the twentieth century, according to Alain Rey, a specialist in French language .
"Get out Ben!" Tunisia has led the way in the language of Molière, reversing mid-January the president and the regime that she no longer wanted. Egypt has followed with the same slogan in Arabic addressed to President Hosni Mubarak.
In France, the resignation of Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, who is now and claimed: "Get out of MMA!". This slogan is the opening, among other things, the homepage of the site MoDem Eure-et-Loir and the name of a group of angry citizens on Facebook.
More flowers, the "Dimettiti Buffone!" (Resigned buffoon!) Selected on February 3 by Italian protesters in Bologna tired of the antics Chairman Silvio Berlusconi with females.
The origin of the word is Germanic, however, said Alain Rey: "wad" (bail bonds) dates from the Middle Ages.
"Get out" refers to "money given in exchange for something, you can not spend as he wishes. If we de-pledge, he becomes free. It emerges first of things, then, metaphorically , someone is freed of a commitment, "said Alain Rey.
"The term is familiar, even rude, in the first half of the twentieth century: it emerges out of a situation where you get stuck or to attack someone who does not want to leave," says it.
"The effect remains, but the context is completely returned. Politics and familiarity were joined once more," said Alain Rey, noting widespread slippage "of communication reserved familiar to the private sphere into the public sphere."
But, he adds, "Get out +! + Is familiar, but it's not bad. Before, we would have said 'Down! Or Go away!" + "

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