Insomnia ([info]insomnia) wrote,
@ 2004-04-05 15:57:00
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Classique!
From the French text on the washing instructions tag of a computer bag manufactured by Tom Binh, a cool-ass company from Santa Cruz :

NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE
NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT.
NOIS N'AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI




(We're sorry our president is an idiot. We didn't vote for him.)

P.S. - Please buy their stuff!

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[info]angel_electric
2004-04-05 05:11 pm UTC (link)

(oh-my-god) fantastic, i love it.

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[info]deadletters
2004-04-05 06:39 pm UTC (link)
That is so brilliantly subversive. In French, no less.

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[info]foxbite
2004-04-05 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Must... buy...prodigious amounts!

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[info]docorion
2004-04-05 08:32 pm UTC (link)
These people need more of my money. I will send it to them. That is outstanding-thanks for sharing!

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[info]markahix
2004-04-05 10:14 pm UTC (link)
That is the absolute coolest shit ever!

(found you linked in [info]gothicbeauty21's journal.

~Mark Alan

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[info]ceo
2004-04-06 06:00 am UTC (link)
[found this entry via [info]beowabbit]
That's great! But now we need one of those little indecipherable symbols for it.

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[info]kai_
2004-04-06 12:10 pm UTC (link)
teeeheeee

that's the best thing I've read all day!

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Sadly, I'm not sure of their grammar
[info]burnthappiness
2004-04-07 05:26 pm UTC (link)
My high school french grammar is a little off, but I believe that their conjugations of etre are a bit off ("soit" is the present subjunctive of "etre"(to be)). I believe that either one "est un idiot" (is an idiot), that one can "soit idiot" (act as an idiot does), or that one "est soit idiot, soit deconnecté de toutes réalités pour croire à son discours" (is either an idiot or too disconnected from reality to judge anything).

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Re: Sadly, I'm not sure of their grammar
(Anonymous)
2004-04-14 07:41 am UTC (link)
The grammar is perfect - surprisingly for an American label. The present subjunctive form "soit" is required because of the use of a verb indicating a wish/hope/want or opinion: "we regret that..." (nous sommes désolés que ...)

Soit can also be used as indicated - to show a choice between two possible things. Just one of those nice little things to confuse the Anglos.

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