This has been around for four years. For a while the company (Tom Bihn, a maker of travel bags) was selling T-shirts with the message on the tag printed large on the front, but they sold out of that item and for some reason are not making it any more. They are also a bit coy in stating that the "president" in the message was Bihn himself (yeah, right).
I didn't get much past high school French (one semester in college), so I'm still baffled by the use of the subjunctive.
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Funny how reading this gave me a swell of civic nationalism (I hope that's the right term, but you know what I mean).
Posted by: JP | February 17, 2008 04:04 PM
A childish act
Posted by: bee | February 17, 2008 05:47 PM
This has been around for four years. For a while the company (Tom Bihn, a maker of travel bags) was selling T-shirts with the message on the tag printed large on the front, but they sold out of that item and for some reason are not making it any more. They are also a bit coy in stating that the "president" in the message was Bihn himself (yeah, right).
I didn't get much past high school French (one semester in college), so I'm still baffled by the use of the subjunctive.
Posted by: Jay Livingston | February 18, 2008 07:23 AM
"Soit" is subjunctive because it follows an emotional verb phrase ("sommes desoles") in the main clause of the sentence.
Posted by: SMG | February 18, 2008 10:42 PM
Photoshop (even though he is an idiot)!!!
Posted by: Nayrzurc | February 19, 2008 01:28 AM