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by jangliss 1016 days ago
In Turkish those are "anne" (an-ney) and "baba"... And "mama" means baby food!
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Cyph0n 1016 days ago
In Tunisian Arabic baby speak, “mama” means “mama” but “mam-ma” (see [1]) means food/eat.

Quite confusing, but it seems to work?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadda

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yongjik 1015 days ago
In Korean, "mamma" is baby-talk for food, "eomma" is mom, and "mama" is "Your Highness" (which is also a euphemism for... measles).
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Cyph0n 1015 days ago
So measles is a royal sickness.. I guess Korean wins haha
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