• Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        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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          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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              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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                1 year ago

                Yeah the movies are just an example but indeed also in the news they’ll use raid for when the armed police kicks the door down but perquisition for the boring ones. It’s just what the words mean at this point, I guess back in the days it was “perquisition armée” (armed).

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      1 year ago

      Maybe I’m too American raised in too much cop movies but a raid always comes off like body armor, armor piercing rounds of ammo, and flash bangs.

      So I kinda need it explained like this.

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        1 year ago

        I think it mostly has that connotation but a bunch of feds showing up unexpectedly at an office to confiscate the books and computers before they can shred/delete data I’d still call a raid.