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Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa says that it's basically
> "that's what kids say, and everybody assumes it's about them".
> Except, according to that page, the Japanese, who assume it's about
> food. I find that pretty hilarious, for some reason.
It's not just the Japanese. In Spanish "papá" is "dad", but "papa",
from Quechua "papa", is "potato" and is also used for any baby-food.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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