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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Papa is German for Daddy. They call him both, depending on the language they are speaking in. [/quote]

3-year-old zombie thread. Also, Vati is German for Daddy.[/quote]

You’re right that this is a zombie thread but wrong that papa isn’t German. Just like in English (!!), there’s more than one familiar term of endearment for father in German. My German husband never called his dad Vati in his life.

The whole premise of this thread is bizarre. Papa is a normal word and “matches” mama, which is also a normal and even more common word. [/quote]

Well, riding a horse into town was normal too, in the 1870s. But if you did it today, it would be intentionally retro. Like, these people insisting on papa and mama.

The people using papa that annoy us are not those of other cultures, living in the US. it’s the hipsters who grew up in suburbia and want to be “special” who annoy us, or who have fetishized “daddy” to the point where they can’t even have their own kids refer to them with the word.

For better or worse, both mama and papa have been appropriated by REALLY annoying sunsets of our culture - shared equally between hipsters and those people who buy tee shirts off of zulily with cursive  “cutsie” sayings on them - “papa bear” or “boy mama” - likewise with the “mama” jewelry. [/quote]

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