Luna to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoThe Vatican unveils official anime girl mascotnichegamer.commessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1676arrow-down19
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minus-square@StrangeName@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish206•11 months agoMissed the chance to call her Vati-chan.
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkEnglish77•11 months agoOh damn, in German, “Vati” is an affectionate form like “daddy”, except it’s the word stem of “father” (“Vater”). And wouldn’t you know it, Christians also use “Vater” to refer to priests, the pope and their god.
minus-squareØπ3ŕlinkfedilinkEnglish16•11 months agoYes, the US largely figured that out with The Empire Strikes Back. 😜
minus-squaremadjolinkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoExcept they were kinda wrong. “Vader” is father in Dutch, not German.
Missed the chance to call her Vati-chan.
Oh damn, in German, “Vati” is an affectionate form like “daddy”, except it’s the word stem of “father” (“Vater”).
And wouldn’t you know it, Christians also use “Vater” to refer to priests, the pope and their god.
Yes, the US largely figured that out with The Empire Strikes Back. 😜
Except they were kinda wrong. “Vader” is father in Dutch, not German.
Dialectic morphology’s a tchüß, oder?
I’m sorry, I don’t know what that means