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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by godelski on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:44PM (#37428247)
Is this similar to the name Annie? Or more like "ah-knee"? Either way, interesting note! I'm just really surprised that these words are similar across such varieties of languages. Like the fact that you have Asia, Europe, Africa, and from what I can find even the mama is similar in Cherokee[0]. So that's all continents! To me that's crazy. And extra fucking interesting that there appears to be (from my non-expert point of view) higher variance in papa than mama, and by a lot.

[0] https://navajowotd.com/word/akei/

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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by eru on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:50PM (#37428285)
> Is this similar to the name Annie? Or more like "ah-knee"?

It's probably easiest if you ask Google Translate to pronounce the word for you: https://translate.google.com/?sl=tr&tl=en&text=anne&op=trans...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anne#Turkish gives the pronunciation as ɑnːe/, [ɑ̽n̪.ˈn̪e̞]

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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by pinkmuffinere on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:09PM (#37428403)
It’s similar to a stereotypical Canadian saying “on, eh?” eru’s response gives the best understanding though, as there’s no perfect English pronunciation of anne.
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