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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 ''[[
== [[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.
{{quote|"Go... how do you say it... away."}}
* Antoine from ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]''.
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