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Cyph0n
1023 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
1 comments
yongjik
1022 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
1022 days ago
So measles is a royal sickness.. I guess Korean wins haha
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