Sometimes being bilingual plays funny tricks on you. Today, I walked by this “usines ours” sign I spontaneously read it half in French (“Usines” = Factories) and half in English (“ours” = “à nous”). Granted, for you other bilingual readers out there, I could have read it all in French (“Ours” = “Bears”) but somehow the bilingual version made more sense. Is it that wave of protest in Wisconsin? Anyway, it read as a throw-back to the slogans of “Mai 68″ and “autogestion” (workers’ self management) - as in: factories are ours.
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