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I've seen this remark quite often when the word (fr)"coq" comes up. It's a non-english word that's homophonous to (en)"cock", but... so what? In french, the wo

I've seen this remark quite often when the word (fr)"coq" comes up. It's a non-english word that's homophonous to (en)"cock", but... so what? In french, the word (fr)"bite" translates to "cock". It's pronounced like (en)"bit". And while a lot of people prefer "octet", "bit" has very much become part of the french vocabulary. So, what do we do? We don't care. We giggle at it when we're in high school and then it stops being funny. In Swedish, (en)"sex" and (en)"six" are the same word (se)"sex", pronounced the same way. They don't care. I also feel like some people here might be forgetting that (en)"cock" has other meanings in English, including the male bird which is what (fr)"coq" means Edit: Prefixed everything because this post was far too confusing.

minipci1321 10y ago
'Bit' does not translate as 'octet'. 'Byte' does. Minor remarque changing nothing in the meaning of your message.
- scrollaway 10y ago
  Uh, you're totally right. I'm completely losing my french, not using it :) PS: remark, not remarque ;)
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  And actually byte and octet aren't identical (octet is less technically ambiguous, since bytes aren't always 8 bits but octets are.)
  - scrollaway 10y ago
    That's a really cool point I never realized!
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wyldfire 10y ago
> I also feel like some people here might be forgetting that (en)"cock" has other meanings in English, including the male bird which is what (fr)"coq" means Which (en)"cock" does (fr)"bite" translate to?
- scrollaway 10y ago
  The genitalia.
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jpfed 10y ago
Wouldn't "bite" in French sound more like "beet" in English?
- scrollaway 10y ago
  Yes, but in french, (en)"bit" is also pronounced with a longer "i" sound than in English, so "bit" in french is also pronounced more like the english "beet". Try playing with https://translate.google.com https://translate.google.com - the audio is very fair on it (albeit spoken much slower than you normally would).

minipci1321 10y ago

'Bit' does not translate as 'octet'. 'Byte' does. Minor remarque changing nothing in the meaning of your message.

scrollaway 10y ago
Uh, you're totally right. I'm completely losing my french, not using it :) PS: remark, not remarque ;)
dragonwriter 10y ago
And actually byte and octet aren't identical (octet is less technically ambiguous, since bytes aren't always 8 bits but octets are.)
- scrollaway 10y ago
  That's a really cool point I never realized!

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wyldfire 10y ago

> I also feel like some people here might be forgetting that (en)"cock" has other meanings in English, including the male bird which is what (fr)"coq" means Which (en)"cock" does (fr)"bite" translate to?

scrollaway 10y ago
The genitalia.

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jpfed 10y ago

Wouldn't "bite" in French sound more like "beet" in English?

scrollaway 10y ago
Yes, but in french, (en)"bit" is also pronounced with a longer "i" sound than in English, so "bit" in french is also pronounced more like the english "beet". Try playing with https://translate.google.com https://translate.google.com - the audio is very fair on it (albeit spoken much slower than you normally would).