Image of "La Roche-Posay" branded face creams. Impact font reads "THEY REALLY NAMED THIS SHIT THE ROACH PUSSY"
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[–] 34 points 1 month ago (21 children)

Only if you don’t understand French.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Ok so for those of us not fluent in French, could you please translate "La Rôche-Posay" for us so we stop chortling like middle schoolers?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's a normal O, no accent. It's the name of a place, not really translatable. The argument is, prononciation of "posay" is nowhere near to "pussy" if you pronounce it the regular French way.

    It's prononced more like "pause-hay".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So, pronouncing pussy but in a funny exaggerated way? I'm imaging Turk from scrubs describing what he did over the weekend to JD.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    🤔 how much of the world population do you think understands French? I would guess less than 10%. Maybe even <5%.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    It’s the forth most popular language in the world.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    That's a neat fun fact! It doesn't answer the question though.

    So how much of the world population do you think understands French, the fourth most popular language?

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  • [+] -11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Why do French speakers require non French speakers to speak French? Why do French speakers feel entitled to belittle others for not speaking a cumbersome language of limited use and value, largely irrelevant to the vast majority of earthlings?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Replace "french" with "English" and you know how non-english speakers feel on most of the Internet. The point is, this joke only makes sense if you're very familiar with English pronunciation (and only some specific accents, I might add) and/or don't instinctively read the French brand name the French way.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I don't go to non-English speaking websites and start demanding everybody speak English with me though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    The whole point of the post is to make fun of a French product that has a French name. I'll even say that, further, they're (jokingly) accusing the producer of the product of knowingly using a name that sounds ridiculous to English speakers, which is a silly premise to begin with.

    I'm not sure what the argument is, but the original comment simply stated that the joke only makes sense if you don't know French (I also don't know French, and it took me 5 seconds to find out that "la roche" means the "rock," so i realized oh they're making fun of how French sounds. It's not a particularly funny post).

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