• @dfense@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    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).

  • MrMobius
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    12 years ago

    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…

  • Metal Zealot
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    12 years ago

    Tell me you don’t speak French without telling me you don’t speak French

  • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver
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    02 years ago

    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.