How Do You Say...?: Difference between revisions

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Pretty much a [[Stock Phrase]] for any [[Funny Foreigner]]. Commonly used either to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on how he [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue|doesn'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, the character often uses an overly sophisticated sentence.

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Sometimes rendered as "how you say" instead of "how do you say". 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.

It is obviously... ¿cómo se dice..? "[[Truth in Television]]". No [[Real Life]] examples, please, I'm sure we've all met native French speakers before.

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== Literature ==

* [[Hercule Poirot]] is, of course, very fond of this phrase as part of his [[Funny Foreigner]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|routine]].

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories]]'':

{{quote|'''Fernando:''' And you realize this is, how you say, a metaphor for the first sexual experience.}}

* In ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'', Fenix asserts that despite his age (and robotic body) he can still, "How do you Terrans say, 'throw down with the best of them'!" Which is goddamn [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]] coming from a [[Warrior Poet|Protoss]].

* In ''[[StarCraft]]'', Fenix asserts that despite his age (and robotic body) he can still, "How do you Terrans say, 'throw down with the best of them'!" Which is goddamn [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]] coming from a [[Warrior Poet|Protoss]].

== [[Web Original]] ==

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{{quote|'''Lana:''' "You knew this whole time?"

'''Scorpio:''' "How you say... [[Brick Joke|wahh wahh]]." }}

* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' uses this for Le Quack, a French criminal duck.

* Antoine from ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]''.

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