Riots or Uprising

[Chessman]

This follows on from Dom Tuks French Riots. Reding the news this morning, (rarely watch tv), it now spread to fifteen cities and towns, at least. It started off as riots, and maybe i'm a doom and gloom merchant, but does anyone think that it may have developed int an uprising?.

[blinkyblinky]

I understand enough to recognise an insult when I read one (or should I say two - stupid and narrow-minded?)

[foxy.fagin]

OK bb, I see you aren't to blame, see the thread http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question161609.html where The Guardian + readers were brought into ? but I see you did not participate. I never criticised your English, I was simply referring to the expression "straight from the horse's mouth" and how it was a piece from the British paper. In France the 'rioters', for the majority I would think, speak FRENCH not English and so all that you have reported from The Guardian is a TRANSLATION.

BTW I was not insulting you, merely replying to your sarcasm.

[blinkyblinky]

If I was going to be really pernickety I'd argue that "straight from the horse's mouth" is more to do with the authority of a source than its language. The point is, the words (or their English equivalents) come from the people who have direct personal knowledge of these events. The language they're expressed in is a different matter.

(Thankfully I'm not going to be that pernickety... oops, too late.)

Well, maybe I was a bit tetchy. If you don't call me stupid or narrow-minded, I promise not to butcher you with my razor-sharp sarcasm... ;o}