Abbott's Comix

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i do so like your style

http://scienceology.com/2015/12/21/hamilton-the-musical-and-the-greatest-bilingual-pun-of-all-time/

I don't get it? "Chat" is pronounced "shah", does that mean something in English?

It's a reference to a refrain in a song in the musical Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. You'd probably enjoy it - it's the story of US founding father Alexander Hamilton, in which every role is taken by a performer of colour, most of the lyrics are rapped, and is riddled with quotes from classic hip-hop songs.

Biggest new hit on Broadway this year, and highest-selling original cast recording since Camelot.

(I enjoyed Abbott's cartoon, and would have been likewise baffled if I hadn't seen the show the day after learning it existed, two months ago.)

Okay, thanks for the explanation and the link (dope tune, btw!), I get it now! But isn't the "t" in the French word silent, so it doesn't actually sound like "shot"?

ok the Cat in the Hat lied to me about the pronunciation :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgJvqyZNjs

also sic I am sooo jealous you have seen Hamilton

I'm sorry about my pedanticism... Maybe the North American French pronounce it differently though? :)

my French is terrible but the t isn't silent when followed by a vowel, also iirc in a lot of francophone songs they pronounce the silent letters which suggests to me that the French, unlike the Finnish, employ poetic license

If it's a girl cat, it could be une chatte.