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ChatGPT Means “Kitty I Have Farted”
When global names go horribly wrong
The French language is considered one of the chicest in the world, and in fact, the word chic is itself French. The French language is very important to the French people, so much so that there is even an institution, the Académie Française, which is tasked with being the authority on the French language. Anytime new words are created, this academy decides how the French will say it, spell it, and which gender the word has. This is important in order to avoid improper pronunciation or bad translations.
The Academy certainly has its work cut out for them with ChatGPT.
Say The Alphabet
The French language uses the same alphabet as English, however, naturally, the letters are pronounced differently. For example, A is pronounced “Ah,” B is “Bay,” and C is “Say.”
Where it gets interesting is with G-P-T.
G is pronounced with a soft G like what we have in the word “massage,” but also it’s pronounced long, like “gay” but with the soft G, rather than the hard letter for the word that we use to describe happy people and homosexuals.
P is pronounced like “pay” and T is said more like “tay.”
