Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?

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”).

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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

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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.

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