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Who brings the gifts (jakubmarian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Lumisal 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lumisal 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Dang it, I corrected it to the wrong thing.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lumisal 1 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Padre = father Papa = dad Papi = daddy