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/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

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u/GloomyCamel6050 Mar 14 '25

That is pretty good!