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For everyone not speaking french: "le chat" in french translates to "the cat". So I guess that's a play on words that works given the context and probably the m
by growt 3y ago
For everyone not speaking french: "le chat" in french translates to "the cat".
So I guess that's a play on words that works given the context and probably the mostly not native french audience.
- rastignack 3y agoI guess it’s like « le Big Mac » in pulp fiction.
- Kuinox 3y agoMany french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.
- tuyiown 3y agoI personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"
- kgwgk 3y agoEven better if you pronounce the 4 in ChatGPT4 as “for[t]”.
- speedgoose 3y agoCat, I did fart loudly. (chat, j'ai pété fort. ChatGPT4).
- agravier 3y agochatte, which translates to pussy, is a better homophone. Also funnier but less sfw
- speed_spread 3y agoThat was a classic when playing on the french Speak & Spell GPTOPIDQ 8 year olds will laugh at anything.
- tuyiown 3y agoWell LHOOQ is one the most famous french art piece, so, maybe there's something going on here.
- lloeki 3y agoWait, that was my joke! https://imgur.com/a/PCqFjOQ https://imgur.com/a/PCqFjOQ (apologies to Geluck)
- GuB-42 3y agoTrue, but here, the insistence on using "le" (instead of just "Mistral Chat"), the "Adoptez le Chat" (adopt the cat) wording and if you go further, the little cat head inside the "M" logo makes the pun very obvious.
- JacobJack 3y agoIt's a way of using the English term "chat" while using the typically French article "Le". It reminds me of old American cartoons that abused the article "Le" to emphasize the French aspect of a character or place. The Mistral products "La Plateforme" and "Le Chat" follow this principle.
- shafyy 3y agoI don't think it's possible that a Francophone pronounces an English word without a "french pronounciation" :-D <3
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- incorrecthorse 3y agoGenuinely curious, what context would explain something relating to a cat? My first reaction as a French native speaker was to read it as "the chat", considering that "chat" is a well-known Anglicism in French.
- calmoo 3y agoI recognised it because of that poster for ‘Le Chat Noir’
- yawnxyz 3y agowhen you use it on dark mode, it does say Le Chat Noir_ as an inside joke!
- growt 3y agoYes in that context it's pretty clear, but if you encounter the word "chat" in any french text, wouldn't you normally assume that it means the animal? I have a similar example in german: The word "Fee" in german means "fairy" and when we used it to promote a product in the past, someone who came from a financial background read it as the english "fee" and was pretty confused about that sentence :)
- afiori 3y agoI like to think of it as partially owning how chatGPT sounds like "Cat, I farted"