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Who brings the gifts (jakubmarian.com)
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[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Funny they say France is Father Christmas but Spain it's Daddy Christmas when they're the same words technically. Maybe they confused Papá with Papí?

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's an error, he's father Christmas here. On a side note, papi has no accent

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dang it, I corrected it to the wrong thing.

I never use Papi so I didn't remember if it had one

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Papá has one to mark the intonation and to differentiate it from Papa, the pope.

Papi is said with the same intonation as Daddy so it doesn't have an accent.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Papa is also potato in America, but in Spain we use patata

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yup, but also means pope, so my dad would joke about the potato pope

[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago

In French, "papa" is the informal way to call your own father, while "père" describes the relationship.

I don't know enough about Spanish to compare, but the french translation feels right to me.

(Actually... Translating "Noël" into a word that talks about Christ and Masses feels weird to me!)

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Padre = father Papa = dad Papi = daddy

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