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[–] dfense 126 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Years ago I consulted for a French company and analyzed their processes. Heavily depended on Excel. They all pronounced Excel Sheet as "Excel Shit". All day long it was sentences like"...and then I make an Excel Shit here", "... then I give the Shit to my colleague". It was glorious... (and technically they were right).

[–] nyoooom 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I think we should blame English people for making sheet/shit and beach/bitch pronunciation so close while their meanings are so far appart.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tell me you don't speak French without telling me you don't speak French

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Careful. If you're too mean to him he'll cancel Fez 2 again!

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[–] Lizardking27 25 points 1 year ago

Bro no one speaks French, the whole language is a prank. French people speak normally when no one else is around.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's true, I don't! Is it pronounced the same in all regions of France? Does Quebec French pronounce it differently? I know very little about French, this just made me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It would be pronounced like a female cat, Chatte gé pé té. But most of us Quebecois would probably pronounce it exactly as in English, with an English accent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chat is written like "cat" but is pronounced like in english. The animal is pronounced like "shah".

[–] wwaxen 5 points 1 year ago

Female cat/"Chatte", though

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

French pronounce chat as in chat, not like the animal. They are morons when it comes to foreign languages, particularly English, but not that much.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] mudmaniac 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see you have said nothing to refute GPT.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even better is Chat GPT4

Chat, j'ai pété fort ! (Cat, I farted Hard)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Four => Fort (pronounced 'for')

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah , but they say quatre for the number 4 not four.

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[–] Leviathan 6 points 1 year ago

If they're pronouncing four then they're pronouncing chat in English too, no? In Quebec they're saying it in English with the usual Franco Quebec accent.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

I'm French, it's absolutely true. Some TV presenters now avoid the misunderstanding by pronouncing GPT the English way. The giggles must have become annoying I guess...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Fartificial Intelligence

[–] itscozydownhere 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reading an English word with the French pronunciation is exactly what I would expect from the French

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean its not like a lot lf Americans put a lot of effort in promouncing foreign words and names correctly as well

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[–] rusty 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's fucking obnoxious, especially working in the tech industry. Hearing the French pronounce things like "Python", "Java", "JBoss", "WildFly" etc for prolonged periods of time was just plain painful.

Don't know if that was just at my company, but first conversations were wild and at first I thought we were using some in house produced software.

[–] suction 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I (involuntarily) work for a French company, because they bought us, and it's not just the pronunciations that will get you. They also like to use certain English words which are currently fashionable (it seems) and apply them to every thing, thereby creating misleading statements...for example, for them "Backend" (as in a server based service) is always "Backend for Frontend (Bee Effe Effe)", which is a specialised term, but now in France a synonym for just "Backend". Another one is "actually", they love to say it. This or that is ACTUALLY correct. "Oh so there was a different way to do it beforehand?" - "no, what are you talking about?"

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[–] ndupont 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's even worse than that, as we dont say the word for cat, which would be pronounced "cha", but rather "chate". And that the slang for pussy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is the "phrase" of Chat GPT therefore akin to "queef"?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All flatulence must be reported to the nearest feline immediately.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter 11 points 1 year ago

My cat knows, but is surprisingly unbothered by it.

[–] synapse1278 18 points 1 year ago
[–] turbodrooler 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have seen Francophones use the word “tchat” so as to not confuse with cat

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 9 points 1 year ago

tchat I farted is definitely better, glad they took steps to avoid any confusion.

[–] Lilnino 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I thought "chat" with a hard "t" in French meant "piss", cat is pronounced "cha". I was told this by a French speaker when I was talking about a "chat noir" poster, using a hard "t" and they said "you're sayong black piss! The "t" is silent for cat".

Can anyone confirm? I feel this is important for this post, "chat gpt" could mean "piss, I farted"

[–] Kowlown 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

French here. I don't know where did he invent the meaning of 'piss' for chat with a hard t. That looks like a joke. For the rest if true. Chat for cat is pronounced without the t

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

the french word for cat ist pronounced "sha" i think

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[–] Nariom 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I never heard anyone pronouncing the english chat as the french chat. Can confirm some people are saying GPT in french and not in english, making it awkward, but some make the effort. edit: I just noticed who is writing this and it's canadian french, don't know much about that

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Can confirm.

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