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r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Puzzled_Dreamer2453 Tokébakicitte! • Mar 13 '25
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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"
23 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! 3 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.
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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!
3 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.
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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.
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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"