“Je Suis Charlie” (updated)

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1. Why is the lettering in English?Report

   1. I suspect it’s to send the message farther around the world. English is now the lingua franca. I did choose this one because it’s in English though and with our readership in mind. The phrase that seems most iconic in France right now is the one I used for the post title. That’s going around the French internet like mad.Report

      1. I should also say that there are a lot of pics with signs reading “pas peur!” which means the same as ‘not afraid’.Report

      2. English is now the lingua franca.

         This might be the definition of irony.Report

      3. I tried to pun on it and decided I shouldn’t try puns.Report

      4. At least you achieved peak irony. That makes you the King of Canadian hipsters.Report

      5. Which is pretty hard in a country where they’ve been dressing like lumberjacks for decades!Report

      6. And they’re OK.Report

      7. At least the ones at the bars I frequentReport

2. Here’s an interesting side note: the quote that people in the English-language internet seem to be sending around is the late Stephane Charbonnier’s “I prefer to die standing than living on my knees” when asked about the threat of being killed.

   I haven’t seen it as much on the French sites as I’ve seen Georges Wolinski’s much more inappropriate and funny response when he was asked about the threat of death: “J’ai dit à ma femme : tu jetteras les cendres dans les toilettes, comme cela je verrai tes fesses tous les jours.”

   (Roughly: I told my wife: throw my ashes in the toilet, so I can look at your ass every day.)Report

   1. Quintessentially French.Report

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