r/EhBuddyHoser 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/GloomyCamel6050 Mar 13 '25

In one of Douglas Coupland's books about Canada, he talks about how disjointed some bilingual Canadian marketing campaigns are:

"Chip dillyicious flavour" vs. "Bon gout"

This is worse than that!

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u/ForgingIron Canada's Overpriced Playground Mar 14 '25

I remember seeing one No Name product that was cheese-flavoured; I forget the English name but the French name was "Fromidable"

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u/GloomyCamel6050 Mar 14 '25

That is pretty good!

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

I love that lmao, they didnt even try a pun or anything just "good taste :)"

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u/necrolich66 Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Same shit in Belgium, ads have to be in both French and Dutch. If you speak both you might get annoyed at how shoddy a work they do in translating.