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Re: Mistral Le Chat

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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 mostly not native french audience.

Many french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.

I personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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post #11
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.

I personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"

Even better if you pronounce the 4 in ChatGPT4 as “for[t]”.

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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post #11
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.

I personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"

Cat, I did fart loudly.

(chat, j'ai pété fort. ChatGPT4).

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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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 mostly not native french audience.

Genuinely 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.

I recognised it because of that poster for ‘Le Chat Noir’

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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post #7
post #6

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.

Many french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.

True, 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.

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely 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.

I recognised it because of that poster for ‘Le Chat Noir’

when you use it on dark mode, it does say

Le Chat Noir_

as an inside joke!

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