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    711 months ago

    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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      1111 months ago

      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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      11 months ago

      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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          11 months ago

          Where are you guys seeing whether the person in the post is Canadian french or not?

          Source: am also Canadian french

          Edit: Phil Fish is Philippe Poisson, a Quebecois game dev. TIL.

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      111 months ago

      chatte means pussy so maybe they misspoke.