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Equally funny to me, The French add an 'e' to Putin when referring to him, probably because Putain sounds like Putin, which is basically the french F-word, espe
by bigmattystyles 4y ago
Equally funny to me, The French add an 'e' to Putin when referring to him, probably because Putain sounds like Putin, which is basically the french F-word, especially in its ability to be swapped out for effect like the F-word.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/putain https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/putain
- bitwize 4y agoRather than risk confusion with putain (whore), the French opted to spell Putin's name phonetically in French -- and settled on "Poutine". And the Canadians giggled.
- bigmattystyles 4y agoHa! What do they do in Quebec?
- mangamadaiyan 4y agoThey snack on Poutine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
- bigmattystyles 4y agoNo, I know that, I meant how do they refer to Putin?
- bitwize 3y agoApparently he's called Poutine in Quebec as well which leads to a literal "freedom fries" situation as Quebecois restaurants that serve the dish avoid mentioning it by name to avoid controversy: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-diner-drops-poutine-from-the-menu-the-word-not-the-dish-to-denounce-putin-1.5800157 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-diner-drops-poutine-from-...
- mangamadaiyan 4y agoAh, I'm sorry - I misunderstood your question :)