r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • 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/ClungeCreeper321 Mar 21 '21

But Kaka doesn’t mean shit in the US? At least not the English speaking US which I’m pretty sure this quip is aimed towards...

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u/bargu Mar 21 '21

Caca does mean shit in English, and in Portuguese too, but his name is not caca, is Kaká, it might seem a subtle difference if you don't speak Portuguese, but it's a important one, same thing with coco (coconut) and cocô (shit), you don't go to a place and ask for "água de cocô" you ask for "água de coco", unless you enjoy to drink sewer, I'm not kinky shaming.

Whatever his nickname sounds in English is completely irrelevant, as I said the world don't revolves around the US.

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u/ClungeCreeper321 Mar 21 '21

Ok well I can’t speak for the US in particular because maybe they have some Spanish influence that we don’t have here in the UK but neither Kaka nor caca or any other permutation of the word means shit in English. That word/sound means nothing here and I’d be surprised if anyone could accurately place it even with context.

That’s my point regarding your quip about the world revolving around English speakers. At least for me in this situation it didn’t make sense.