"sans privé" ?

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"sans privé" ?

Yesterday I was reading an article on a website about the flu vaccine. Someone had written a comment, saying something like "Le vaccin est disponible, pourquoi sans privé?"

Sans prive? It took me a few seconds to understand that he meant: "pourquoi s'en priver"!  The rest of his comment was full of spelling and other mistakes as well....

Se priver de = to do/go without something, to forgo something, to deny oneself something.

Examples:

Manchester United forced to do without Rio Ferdinand until December.

Recession causes more people to go without dental insurance.

Half of Michigan residents to forgo swine flu shot.


He denied himself any pleasure.

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