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Frenchman here, I Google Translated that and it says "We at WC Duck recommend WC Duck"... I'm left scratching my head, if you'd care to spell out what the sayi
by achenet 2mo ago
Frenchman here, I Google Translated that and it says
"We at WC Duck recommend WC Duck"... I'm left scratching my head, if you'd care to spell out what the saying means for non-Dutch I'd appreciate it :)
- wesselbindt 2mo agoIt was a commercial slogan for a toilet cleaning agent. An English equivalent would be "mr clean recommends you use mr clean". Today, it is used to point out when someone tells you they themselves delivered good work. Anytime you'd use the meme of Obama giving himself a medal, you could use this phrase.
- card_zero 2mo agoThe Toilet Duck brand exists in English. Canard-WC in French, even.
- tialaramex 2mo agoActually the existence of the French name is confusing for English speakers as although many would know enough school French to get "canard" == "duck" if prompted, in English this word ends up meaning some sort of fabrication or hoax, apparently from an old French joke where somehow that punchline of that joke was popularized in England so long ago we don't have records. Human culture is weird. So the first thing an English native might get from "Canard WC" is probably hoax toilet, I expect the duck imagery of the product would bring the "canard" == "duck" meaning across though.
- jamesfinlayson 2mo agoI probably should have figured part of it out from my basic German, but I guess the Dutch don't capitalise nouns?