Chat GPT

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).

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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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- French can pronounce it correctly. They don't care. It's not like it's hard to elongate the e "sound" they're not coming from a non Latin language.
  
  Edit : I mean bilingual persons not monolingual.
  
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Tell me you don't speak French without telling me you don't speak French

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

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

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- Wait, what happened with Fez 2??
  
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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.

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

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Chatte GPT

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- Then it's not cat. It's pussy
  
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I see you have said nothing to refute GPT.

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- The GPT part is correct
  
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- J'ai doesn't sound anything like "gee"
  
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Yep https://chat-jai-pete.fr/

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Even better is Chat GPT4

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

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Quatre

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- Four => Fort (pronounced 'for')
  
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- Pronounced cat stuff farting in it is still they best thing
  
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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.

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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...

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Fartificial Intelligence

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

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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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- Source? The vast majority of Americans I know would just avoid the name or word to avoid embarrassment.
  
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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.

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- 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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As an English speaker, I would not even know how to pronounce a French acronym such as UTC in French.

GPT is an acronym, not a word.

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- Yeah but it is (or should be) expected that to live in this world in 2023 you should know English and at least how to pronounce an acronym made by an American company
  
  I’m Italian so not a native speaker either, I just hate ignorance and pride of one own language to the point that you don’t want to learn anything else. Happens often in my country
  
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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.

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

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- I confirm. It's hilarious. People are trying hard to find other means of mentioning this service without actually saying ChatGPT but most of the times, they're stuck and everybody keeps a straight face but deep down we all know the boss/teacher/minister just said, "cat/pussy I farted" and I think it's wonderful.
  
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All flatulence must be reported to the nearest feline immediately.

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My cat knows, but is surprisingly unbothered by it.

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Here you go

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

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

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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"

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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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- Yeah pronouncing "chaT" would be chatte (female genitalia, or luck or a female cat. gotta love French :-)
  
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I am not aware of any meaning of chat with a hard T meaning piss. Maybe something local and not widespread. edit: looks like canadian french

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- Nope not Canadian French (source: am Canadian French)
  
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chatte means pussy so maybe they misspoke.

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

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Une chatte (shat) for l female cats. Un Chat (sha) for male cats

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It's spelled chat and pronounced shat with a very soft t.

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- No, t is completely silent so it is pronounced Sha. however even if chat is french writing for cat we pronounce this word in English in Chat GPT. The three letters are said in french and do make the same sound as "j'ai pété" thought. Sincerely, a French guy
  
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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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Nope we say it as in English. Maybe he's from "Les régions".

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Can confirm.

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Link to the post.

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Aua, das muss am Umgang liegen

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I confirm. It's hilarious. People are trying hard to find other means of mentioning this service without actually saying ChatGPT but most of the times, they're stuck and everybody keeps a straight face but deep down we all know the boss/teacher/minister just said, "cat/pussy I farted" and I think it's wonderful.

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Low effort. It's an American service, therefore it's pronounced Chat Gee-Pee-Tee, not Chut-Jay-Peh-Teh. I mean of course it's somewhat close in pronunciation but not enough to confuse anyone.

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Bruh, have you left your Nebraska home in the last 20 years?

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- You mean my Nebraska home in Germany?
  
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They pronounce it the way they pronounce french letters. J is jeh P is peh T is teh

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- OK but that's just uneducated then. Because "chat" is a huge hint that this is not a French brand name. They surely know of "chat" as a message application and wouldn't think of "cat" first...or maybe they think everything is created in France, I wouldn't be surprised.
  
  No German person says "Chat Gey-Pey-Tey", it's so natural to pronounce in English because it starts with "chat".
  
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Non

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- Just looked it up and yeah it's not. My french is horrible
  
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What I'm french and this is wrong

J is pronounced Gee and J'ai is definitely pronounced like G

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- Yeah I took a little french in high school and mis-remembered.
  
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