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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by bedobi on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:37PM (#37428562)
don't mean to nitpick but not sure where you're getting Japanese from, in Japanese mama is Okaasan or Haha and Otousan or Chichi for dada. (I don't know the evolution of either of the words, it may be that they were closer to mama and dada in the past or distant past, but contemporar Japanese doesn't fit the pattern)
Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by grose on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:59PM (#37429119)
Mama and papa are used in Japan too. See constructions like “mama-tomo” (“mom friends”) and “papa-katsu” (“sugar daddy”).
Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by mikepavone on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:05AM (#37429164)
These are recent loanwords though which the OP considered uninteresting
Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by midoridensha on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:08AM (#37429592)
Those are loanwords, very recently borrowed from English, like so many other recent loanwords. That's what they're always written in katakana.