Last night Chompsky wrote in his schoolbook French to Stephane Régy, editor of So Foot, the magazine which conducted that interview with Stephen Ireland. Chomps wanted to know if the magazine had a recording of the meeting with Ireland, who has since claimed he was misquoted.
Bonsoir Stephane Régy,
Je travaille pour un site web (un journal) www.broadsheet.ie et je fais un article de l’interview avec Stephen Ireland. Je voulais savoir si vous avez l’enregistrement de cette interview? Je
serais tres obligé de me répondre.
Merci d’avance,
Chompsky
At midnight last night Monsoir Régy, possibly unaware he was corresponding with a badly drawn cartoon dog, responded:
Bonsoir Chompsky,
Merci pour votre message. Oui, nous avons bien l’enregistrement decette interview, qui confirme les propos de Stephen Ireland – lequel, si vous lisez bien ses réactions depuis la publication de l’interview, n’a jamais dit qu’il ne les avait pas tenus…
Bien à vous
Stéphane
Translation: “Thanks for your message. Yes, we have for sure got the tape recording of the interview which confirms Stephen Ireland’s comments. If you read what he said since the publication of the interview, he never said that these weren’t his words.'”
Chompsky has now asked for a transcript of the interview.
More as he gets it.