• Subway Poster

    September 1, 2024 in France ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F

    BMW was heavily advertising their new scooters. These posters were all over the Metro system. The sign says "As your old man used to say, you're going to be 'hip.'" I wonder which demographic this ad is targeting. The word used for "hip" is from the hippie era. I asked two different native French speakers to translate this poster and neither of them knew what the word chébran meant. I finally found a translation program that said it was an old hippie word for hip or groovy.Read more