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Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser


Tools programmer
Writer-wannabe
Did translations once upon a time
I contain multitudes


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shel
@shel

How many times does the letter "n" appear in the word mayonnaise

There is no letter "n" in the word "mayonnaise".


shel
@shel

What letters are in the word mayonnaise?

The word "mayonnaise" contains the letters M, A, Y, O, N, A, I, S, E. There is no letter "N" in the word "mayonnaise".


shel
@shel

Shel:

What is a question you would be able to answer correctly?

Bard:

I can answer a wide range of questions, including:

Factual questions, such as "What is the capital of France?" or "What is the population of China?"
Open-ended questions, such as "What is the meaning of life?" or "What is the best way to learn a new language?"
Creative questions, such as "Write a poem about a cat" or "Write a script for a short film."
Technical questions, such as "How does a car engine work?" or "How do I code a website?"

I am still under development, but I am learning to answer more and more questions correctly every day. I am always happy to try my best to answer your questions, no matter how difficult they may seem.

Shel:

How many times does the letter P occur in the name of the city that is the capital of France?

Bard:

The letter P does not occur in the name of the city that is the capital of France. The capital of France is Paris, and there is no letter P in the name Paris.

Shel:

Why is Paris spelled with a Q?

Bard:

The city of Paris is spelled with a Q because it comes from the Latin word "Lutetia Parisiorum", which means "settlement of the Parisii tribe". The Parisii tribe was a Celtic tribe that lived in the area around Paris in the 1st century BC. The name "Paris" comes from the Celtic word "parisios", which means "marsh". The Q in the name "Paris" is a remnant of the Latin word "Lutetia".

The letter Q is not a very common letter in the French language, but it is used in a few words, such as "Paris", "quatre" (four), and "queue" (tail).


Turfster
@Turfster

In Paris, they don't say "I love you", they say "tu as un beau Q", and I think that's beautiful


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in reply to @shel's post:

No, it's spelled Paris, but there is a Q in the name. There also isn't a P, even though you spell it Paris.

also amazing how it managed to get basically every fact wrong in its reply? Wikipedia says that "Lutetia" is probably a Celtic word, not Latin ("Likely origins are Celtic root lut- meaning "a swamp or marsh" + suffix -ecia"), so "Lutetia Parisiorum" is probably not entirely Latin let alone a "Latin word" (it's a town!!!), although Wikipedia does translate it as "Lutetia of the Parisii". "parisios" might be a sorta Celtic word but I have no clue where it's pulling the meaning as "a marsh" from (this article suggests it might mean "cauldron" or "the makers" or "Spear People" but certainly not "a marsh".

"The letter Q is not a very common letter in the French language"
Out of all of these errors THIS is the one that bugs me the most because it is just like....Q is literally the first letter of some of the most commonly used words in French!!! When you learn "who what where why" type questions in French almost all of them start with Q. "Qu'est-ce que" is one of the most common conversational phrases (how you would start any sentence asking "what is....").

Idk it's just dumb. It obviously doesnt really have a way to separate out the concept of individual letters from its own use of letters to form words via pattern recognition/repetition. I can kind of understand it being tricked and making shit up about a specific word but making something up about an entire language that is the opposite of what that language actually is like feels just next level stupid. Its just a "finish this sentence using the auto-suggested words" meme but on a bigger scale and with the mechanisms hidden. Its gibberish