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How Do You Say
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Pretty much a Stock Phrase for any Funny Foreigner. Commonly used either to hang a lampshade on how they don't speak English too well or with swearing to create a Sophisticated as Hell effect. Ironically, it is usually used to show that the character isn't very fluent in English, but after the "How you say..." line, they often use an overly sophisticated sentencenote Originally it probably has to do with the fact that to a French speaker (and to some extent to speakers of other Romance languges) the words that will be most familiar in English are the ones that came from Norman and Latin, and that Anglophones consider more fancy. Most frequently rendered as "how you say" instead of "how do you say" for added loose grasp on the language. Can lead to Buffy Speak. Another variant is to use it before an idiom, occasionally a... qu'est-ce qu'on dit... "Totally Radical" idiom. See Language Equals Thought if something along the lines of "my language, she has no word for this" comes up. If the speaker is a Naive Newcomer or a Funny Foreigner, sometimes they will forego the "How do you say" part and just incorrectly use a stock phrase ("Time to let the butt be kicked!"). It is obviously... ¿cómo se dice..? "Truth in Television". No Real Life examples, please. |
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Used frequently in Godzilla: The Series with the native Frenchwoman of the team, Monique, even though her English is competent and avoids Blunt Metaphors Trauma. Memorably inverted once with (paraphrasing): | |
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Kansas City Princess: The gag in this film is that Marie and Rosie are American women pretending to be French, and doing it quite badly. So that's what's going on when Rosie's giggling flirtatiousness prompts Marie to say to Junior, "She has, how you say, a good time?" | |
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Archer: At the beginning of the pilot episode, Archer is interrogated by a Russian with a bad accent (who's actually not even Russian, which is immediately lampshaded by Archer saying, "Would you pick an accent and stick to it?"), who tells Archer that capturing him "is for us, how you say... a good get." | |
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Professor Anna Vooshka from Carry On Behind is a Russian archaeologist who has come to Britain to help uncover Roman artifacts. Unfortunantly, her English is spotty and leads her to say many Double Entendres. | |
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Parodied in The Office (US), where Michael thought it was necessary to say "How you say?" to a perfectly English-fluent and non-French Canadian woman under the basis of her being "foreign". | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School has Saison Marguerite, who says this fairly frequently. Sometimes before words that actually are French. Brittnay lampshades this fairly often and uses it to accuse Saison of being from Montreal instead of France. | |
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In Junior Officers, Verdun says this, and mumbles to himself in French for a moment, before figuring out what the word was. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: From "All That Glitters": | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series has the Borat Expy use the Sophisticated as Hell version to say that he is "How do you say, kind of a dick." | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Berlioz uses this phrase in "The Paris Trip." His English is very good, though he's not sure of the right word for "grandfathered in." | |
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