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Interesting, I didn’t know they had le chat. I’ve been wanting a chatgpt competitor with mistral. Also love the fact they put “le” in front of their products
by syntaxing 3y ago
Interesting, I didn’t know they had le chat. I’ve been wanting a chatgpt competitor with mistral. Also love the fact they put “le” in front of their products
- loudmax 3y agoCute, but "le chat" literally means "the cat". I presume most young Francophones who are likely to actually use Mistral will pronounce it in Franglais as "le tchatte".
- cfn 3y agoI literally thought it was their mascot or something and ignored it.
- generalizations 3y agoThey also used the phrase "La Plateforme" so it seems likely they may be going for the english word "chat". Though I haven't tried 'le chat' so idk if they have a cat mascot there or something.
- jakeinspace 3y agoPlateforme (plate-forme) is semi-accepted French, it’s an anglicisme.
- dadoum 3y agois it? I always thought that it was just the corrected spelling (a lot of composite words have been merged together in a spelling reform in 1990), and that the English word was actually borrowed from French.
- jakeinspace 3y agoHa, apparently I’m the uneducated one. I’d assumed it was an anglicisme that happened to work nicely, but it came to English from Middle French. However, the modern tech-related usage certainly first showed up in English, and then was upstreamed to French I assume? That’s kind of amusing… I’ll leave this as a testament to my hubris as a non-native French speaker.
- bmer 3y agoIt (the word plateform) never died out in French. Wiktionary's "etymology" section is great for 98% of words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/platform#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/platform#Etymology In general, Modern English has many words from French or other Romance (Latin-origin) languages due to French being an important vector through which Latin-origin words entered English, evolving it in competition with Germanic-origin words.
- baq 3y agoCould’ve gone with le coq…
- mtremsal 3y agoIn the top-left corner, when using dark mode, they call it "le chat noir", i.e. the black cat. :)
- samstave 3y agoThey must have changed something in the matrix.
- not_a_dane 3y agothe simulation is broken.
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- sekai 3y ago> I presume most young Francophones who are likely to actually use Mistral will pronounce it in Franglais as "le tchatte" Anything's better than hearing how french pronounce ChatGPT: "tchat j'ai pété" (literally means "cat, I farted" in french).
- schrijver 3y agoUhm, no ? Chat as in cat is pronounced sja. Or sjaht for a female cat (chatte). The tsjaht pronounciation is when using the english word chat in french.
- ot 3y ago"Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac"
- moffkalast 3y agoReminds me of the rage comics of old.
- rldjbpin 3y agothat was my impression, given that the main word is not in french also. that might've come across very snub.