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Especially women’s. In French we call it “la taxe rose” (the pink tax).

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

the French have such a way with words, that's almost as good as "le cigarette will cause le cancer"

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 21 hours ago

Not sure I appreciate the irony. But you’re correct that it sounds very similar in french.

One could say: “la cigarette va causer le cancer” although that sounds very “english” and is probably what someone who learnt french knowing english would say. The more “fluent” way would be “fumer peut mener au cancer”. But both are technically correct.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 7 points 20 hours ago

Quand aux français, ils disent "fumer tue".

plutôt ce qui est écrit sur le paquet, mais ouais.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 20 hours ago

Je pense que c'est devenue naturel au point que la phrase nous vienne naturellement à la bouche pour parler des conséquences de la cigarette. Après tout, elle tue par le cancer, pas par accident de la route ou overdose.

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