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1) FWIW, asking GPT5 in french gives you the correct answer

"Non — il n’existe pas d’emoji spécifique pour les hippocampes."

“No — there is no specific emoji for seahorses.”

2) Then I asked the question in english, and ... it ended by saying "No — there is no official seahorse emoji in the Unicode standard." and referring to this phenomenon as the "Mandela effect".

3) I asked why it was clear in french, but not in english. It made a 3 minutes CoT and went on for some excuses.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e3acca-8db8-8007-8f95-8ae69ebf07...



wow, I took 4 years of French years ago and TIL that "hippocampus" is named after the French word for seahorse, probably due to its shape


It actually comes from ancient Greek hippokámpē or hippókampos.

híppos = horse

kámpos = "kind of fish" (some say "sea monster")

And this is directly linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campe


Ah, thanks for the clarification!




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