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The -tion ending is theirs anyway, and they love certain types of English words. They especially love -ing endings and will stick them on when it wouldn’t make
by hotnfresh 3y ago
The -tion ending is theirs anyway, and they love certain types of English words.
They especially love -ing endings and will stick them on when it wouldn’t make sense in English. Ever notice the French for shampoo on also-sold-in-Canada shampoo bottles in the US? Shampooing. As a noun. And that’s not some Quebecois thing, it’s French French. Maybe they also like the “sh-“, and that made “shrinkflation” appealing.
They also use “parking”. “Le parking”. As in parking lot. Again, as a noun.
[edit] Shampooing is said “sham-pwan”, more or less, hitting the “n” rather softly, but parking is spoken almost the same as in English.
- dustincoates 3y agoMeanwhile, you have smoking and brushing, which are not at all the same as what they are in English. (Tuxedo and blow dry, respectively.)