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[–] rowdyrockets@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I was going to high school in France when Saw 6 came out.

Everyone was calling it sausage - was pretty funny at the time.

Saw Six / saucisse

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I love that for them. That's hilarious. It's like when I found out what Pajero means. Every time I see one driving around I call out 'wankah!'

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 27 points 2 days ago

The real reason why Mistral Le Chat was launched

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I told this to some French speaking friends when I first found out a few years ago and they were totally non-plussed. Seems like only native anglophones enjoy this fact.

Then again, in France younger people might use the English word "cool" despite the fact it sounds like the French for ass ("cul"). Probably used to it.

[–] tatann@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool doesn't sound like cul, it's sounds like coule

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yeah you wouldn't say the L at the end of 'cul', right? Sometimes in English people don't make the L sound in 'cool' if they are trying to be particularly cool.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ye, it's pronounced like Q. That's why toilet paper is often shortened to pt (papier toilette) but also to pq (papier cul)

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's nothing new. They are used to the confusing nature of English, as us anglophones have been yelling "seal egg!" (phoque oeuf) for years, and seals are mammals, yo.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Mammals have eggs. They are just usually very small. Except for platypus.

The only requirement for being a mammal is nipples. Or, more specifically, mammary glands.

Fur and three inner-ear bones and a broad neocortex are important, too...but not as big as nipples.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I have nipples Greg; can you milk me?

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Ok, but then what about smurfs

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That Phil Fish? Where's Fez 2!?

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Fez is soooo good!

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he said fuck it, took his ball and went home on that one a while ago.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's 15 years past time to expect anything else from him. Just surprised to see his name pop up.

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He's occasionally entertaining to follow on Mastodon. Doesn't post a lot but gives zero fucks

[–] CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

*Purring

*Licks butt

*farts

*looks at you blamingly

Meow

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thread : 3h ago.
Accourt : 2 days.

You were waiting for your moment, weren't you ?

[–] CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

purrrrrrrrrrr

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

francophones pronounce "chat" like anglophones: \tʃat\

chat

[–] hakase@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

So it's just Zoomer-speak ("Chat, I farted") instead?

[–] TomViolence@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

The funny part is we decided to pronounce "chat" in perfect english, but the remaining letters will stay french no matter what.

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So it's more like "female cat, I farted"

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

not really, because chatte doesn’t have the t in front of the ch sound, so it’s \ʃat\ (shat) instead of \tʃat\ (chat)

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

What part indicates that it means female cat? You can use chatte for that but it also means pussy so probably don’t.

[–] werty@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Chat, is this fart real?

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a non native English speaker and I've never heard it pronounced like the letters would be pronounced like in my native language. Always like English (with an accent). Do french speakers do that?

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

They do. Otherwise it would sound like Chat JPT. So they say Chat J'ai Pété

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the 58th time I've seen this

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the 978th time I've seen a comment like this and I still don't understand the point.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The point is people like new content and if OP just keeps reposting over and over it's annoying. Hence a very slight pushback. If we wanna get into this meta criticism stuff, I've seen the pushback to pushback comments like yours here 928473927342 times.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So downvote and move on. You're not gonna stop it. Or keep being a nonce. Whatever.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But you? You're different. You're going to stop people from expressing annoyance at the same shit posted over and over. Yep.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God no. It's obviously very important to you. I'm just taking the piss.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

See? DIFFERENT

[–] koper@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

There's a company that unironically calls itself "Mendix".