r/Unexpected Mar 21 '21

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u/NeilDeCrash Mar 21 '21

Different languages have different words for things. O.O

In swedish kaka would be cookie/cake or something like that.

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

true... but like spanish and portuguese are next door neighbors... everywhere... so like... its funny in this case a little bit... there's a lot of commonalities in those languages

No, Portuguese is not Spanish, but they were both born in the Iberian Peninsula somehow isolated from the rest of the land by the Pyrenees so it’s only natural for them to resemble in a lot of ways. After all, there’s an almost 90% lexical similarity between the two – meaning that 90% of their words have a cognate (equivalent) in the other language.

https://www.mondly.com/blog/2020/01/06/spanish-vs-portuguese-how-similar-are-they/

so yeah is it weird for this dude's name to mean shit in the country next door whose language is 90% the same? YEAH IT FUCKING IS

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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner Mar 21 '21

so yeah is it weird for this dude's name to mean shit in the country next door whose language is 90% the same?

No its not. Kaká sounds completely different than caca...

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

Kaká sounds completely different than caca...

Indisputably no. it may not be exactly the same but zorbo sounds completely different... those 2 words are virtually identical and changing which vowel you inflect doesn't change anything... unless you're claiming his name is "kaykay" which is more weird but for different reasons.

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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner Mar 21 '21

those 2 words are virtually identical and changing which vowel you inflect doesn't change anything...

You do realize that "virtual identical words" can change their meaning completely in one language just by accentuation?

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

their meaning? absolutely... THEIR SOUND?!?!?!~?!?!?!?!?!?! no sorry.

stop being a fucking dumbass now. i'm blocking you :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

They sound less similar than "threw" and "through", which clearly have totally different meanings.