Comment on Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority

• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it’s only in French that we associate raid with “all guns blazing” because we use the English word for cool action movies and the French one for boring news segments.

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  • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s not only in French. The word raid is quite connotated with an armed police raid, at least in non native speakers.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that makes sense, probably for similar reasons right?

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      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        not sure if it is only because of the movies. Even in the (world) news that you may read online it is much more often to read in the headlines of a violent armed police raid than service workers walking in to get the accounting books. So I guess it could also be that we’ve never seen or used this word in another context.

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