Lost in translation

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy needs some new staff.

He was quoted on a recent news bulletin as praising the Irish Government for its courage in holding a new referendum on Lisbon.

His interpreter/translator should be informed that grovelling obedience is not the same thing at all as courage.

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