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Still a favorite. In Quebec the "Stop" signs say "Arret." In France they say "Stop."

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

🤣🤣🤣 from another 🇫🇷 resident.

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May 12, 2023·edited May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Chatte, j’ai pété. Brilliant.

Reminds me of the shellfish seller's van I used to see around here.

Along with a blue motif of seafood and their telephone number, it had the tag line, "Spécialiste des Moules".

Fnar.

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

No-no-no-no-no.

You pronounce the isolated letters ‘G’ and ‘J’ the opposite to the way we do in French.

Well done for the pun, it took me to read some lines before anticipating it. I never made that connection before, now I'll do it every time ^^

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Nob -> Knob, surely?

Or are you having a go at the posh?

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Hey. Does this mean we can get a new Autosave is for Wimps every day now you’ve trained the latest computer trick of the day to output profanities galore (I tried typing them in here butt sometime I just think - If I wouldn’t say it anywhere my Gran would have heard me or have received a report about me from neighbours/friends then it don’t get said at all)

Dang it, one slipped in there after all!

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Wow... this article managed to stir a few neurons I hadn't excercised since it took French in middle school (it wasn't this millennium!)

It was that odd feeling when you know that you know something, and then... boom! it loads ("Ye peté" as one would read it from Spanish)

Also, hate myself for admitting it, but Ithe Dev Patel / Alicia Keys was not terrible!

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Am I the only one hearing Sean Connery's voice whilst reading the title (especially the first three words)?

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Eventually, Chatte, j’ai pété will be trained on this very article.

What fun it would be if that training session is the one where the LLM achieves true self-awareness?

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May 12, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

We'd know it wasn't really AIfW by ChatGPT's inability to source a suitably obscure piece of music for the end of the column. And also because it would be published under the byline "Hank Waggenburger III"

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May 13, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

As a francophone who (unfortunately?) speaks better english than most, works in a non-francophone country and never had thought out how compatriots would sound speaking of Chat GPT, it made me laugh out loud! Really did! 👏👏👏

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May 15, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair, I can assure you that every school boy in France sniggers when the acronym GPT is used.

But I must have been using English for too long for I never noticed before I read your column.

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Kerrang! should always be written Kerrang!, never Kerrang. If Chat GPT doesn't know that, we're safe.

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May 24, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Some of us worked in telecoms many years ago for a certain UK company formed out of the remains of GEC and Plessey Telecom. Oh, how the French guys (always guys) at the standards meetings would snigger.

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