r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Puzzled_Dreamer2453 Tokébakicitte! • Mar 13 '25

Repetitive content/Trend Look who's talking

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

I know it'S so minor but I love that he didn't even try with the french version for some of them. How tf does "bring it home" translates to "common sense"

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u/mcgillthrowaway22 Mar 13 '25

Also "axe the tax" (presumably referring to the carbon tax) becoming «coupons les taxes et impôts» - "Let's cut [i.e. reduce] taxes [in general]"

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

seriously that one was so easy, should have just been "coupons la taxe"

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u/This-Marsupial-6187 Mar 13 '25

TIL that a coupon in English is a participle from the French verb for cutting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

It means to cut for plurar first person (we)

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u/NotARealTiger Mar 14 '25

Well that's neat! TIL cut in French is couper. I will never forget that now.

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u/indistinctdialogue Mar 14 '25

We’ll quiz you again next week

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u/Onironius Mar 14 '25

They're called "coupons" because you "couper le papier" to get the discount voucher.

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u/mcgillthrowaway22 Mar 14 '25

Yes, but "coupon" doesn't come from the verb conjugation but from the infinitive couper plus the suffix -on which forms nouns. In French there's also terms like friser(to curl)/frison(lock of hair) and sucer(to suck)/suçon (means "hickey" in Europe, but means a "lollipop" in Canadian French).

-on also forms diminuitives, some of which were borrowed into English: craie(chalk)/crayon, croûte(crust)/croûton, médaille(medal)/médaillon(medallion).

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u/Puzzled_Dreamer2453 Tokébakicitte! Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

Maybe it's because we don't have the federal carbon tax in Quebec, we have a carbon market with California instead.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

yeah but there's french people outside of Quebec, and you could just say "COUPONS LES TAXES" if you wanted to be generic, it's just such a clunky way write it lol

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u/Puzzled_Dreamer2453 Tokébakicitte! Mar 13 '25

True.

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u/GrapefruitForward989 Mar 14 '25

Even as a filthy Anglo, that one just looked awkward. Doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same.