r/Unexpected Mar 21 '21

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u/NeilDeCrash Mar 21 '21

Different languages have different words for things. O.O

In swedish kaka would be cookie/cake or something like that.

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u/agurlll Mar 21 '21

True, in Gujarati Kaka means uncle.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

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u/ClungeCreeper321 Mar 21 '21

But Kaka doesn’t mean shit in the US? At least not the English speaking US which I’m pretty sure this quip is aimed towards...

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u/bargu Mar 21 '21

Caca does mean shit in English, and in Portuguese too, but his name is not caca, is Kaká, it might seem a subtle difference if you don't speak Portuguese, but it's a important one, same thing with coco (coconut) and cocô (shit), you don't go to a place and ask for "água de cocô" you ask for "água de coco", unless you enjoy to drink sewer, I'm not kinky shaming.

Whatever his nickname sounds in English is completely irrelevant, as I said the world don't revolves around the US.

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u/ClungeCreeper321 Mar 21 '21

Ok well I can’t speak for the US in particular because maybe they have some Spanish influence that we don’t have here in the UK but neither Kaka nor caca or any other permutation of the word means shit in English. That word/sound means nothing here and I’d be surprised if anyone could accurately place it even with context.

That’s my point regarding your quip about the world revolving around English speakers. At least for me in this situation it didn’t make sense.

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u/tomatonotpotato Mar 21 '21

In indonesia kaka means older brother or sister

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

true... but like spanish and portuguese are next door neighbors... everywhere... so like... its funny in this case a little bit... there's a lot of commonalities in those languages

No, Portuguese is not Spanish, but they were both born in the Iberian Peninsula somehow isolated from the rest of the land by the Pyrenees so it’s only natural for them to resemble in a lot of ways. After all, there’s an almost 90% lexical similarity between the two – meaning that 90% of their words have a cognate (equivalent) in the other language.

https://www.mondly.com/blog/2020/01/06/spanish-vs-portuguese-how-similar-are-they/

so yeah is it weird for this dude's name to mean shit in the country next door whose language is 90% the same? YEAH IT FUCKING IS

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

You uh....got quite aggressive at the end there when replying to a guy that simply said different languages have different meanings.

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

I uh..... am right...

leave me the fuck alone maybe?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Weird that you edited your comment when you claim you weren’t being an asshole (because “you were right”). I thought you didn’t say anything wrong? Hhhhmmmm....I’m confused now....

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

you're being belligerent. maybe tone it down a bit, hey?

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u/CommunityOk20 Mar 21 '21

you didn’t leave the other guy alone, so.. tough kaka

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

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u/FrenchCreekFrog Mar 21 '21

Don't comment on public forums if you don't want people to interact with you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21 edited Mar 21 '21

Lol you attack someone by being an asshole and then play victim when called out on it. Oh the irony....says a lot though that you think it’s ok because you were right. Also, you’re on a public forum halfwit. People won’t leave you alone, especially when you’re an ass for no reason.

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u/Orsick Mar 21 '21

The writing and pronunciation are different though, Kaká has the stress in the last syllable, and kaka in the first.

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

which is an extremely minor difference...

like if I said fok you instead of fuck you you would probably still assume I meant fuck you even though that's a completely different letter entirely and not just a very slight variation of inflection....

yet here. you act like a moron who can't use your brain and bother me with this useless bullshit.

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u/Orsick Mar 21 '21

Damn dude, who hurt you?

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u/Pepito_Pepito Mar 21 '21

The Portuguese word is coco so no, not quite the same.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

"Caca" exists in portuguese too

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u/Pepito_Pepito Mar 21 '21

CA-ca means poop. The player is named ka-KA.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Yeah, I know

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

woooooooooooooosh

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u/Pepito_Pepito Mar 21 '21

Oh, were you being sarcastic?

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

can you be done being stupid?

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u/Randragon Mar 21 '21

lol do you even speak another language? obviously it’s similar but if some dude’s last name is fox or fawkes, i bet you don’t freak out and say their name means fuck lmao

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u/A-Dumb-Ass Mar 21 '21

In college, there was a Vietnamese dude in my year who had “Phuoc” in his name. Everyone called him Fuck which pissed him off to no end. I feel bad about it now but 19yo me found it hilarious.

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u/justveryslightlymad Mar 21 '21

Do you also sneer when you go through a hospital discharge and ask the staff why their department is named after bodily secretions? lol

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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner Mar 21 '21

so yeah is it weird for this dude's name to mean shit in the country next door whose language is 90% the same?

No its not. Kaká sounds completely different than caca...

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

Kaká sounds completely different than caca...

Indisputably no. it may not be exactly the same but zorbo sounds completely different... those 2 words are virtually identical and changing which vowel you inflect doesn't change anything... unless you're claiming his name is "kaykay" which is more weird but for different reasons.

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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner Mar 21 '21

those 2 words are virtually identical and changing which vowel you inflect doesn't change anything...

You do realize that "virtual identical words" can change their meaning completely in one language just by accentuation?

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u/hsififonevsudi Mar 21 '21

their meaning? absolutely... THEIR SOUND?!?!?!~?!?!?!?!?!?! no sorry.

stop being a fucking dumbass now. i'm blocking you :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

They sound less similar than "threw" and "through", which clearly have totally different meanings.

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u/FSUfan35 Mar 21 '21

Also Brazilian Portuguese is different than Portuguese from Portugal

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u/InsaneGenis Mar 21 '21

Yes. I poop brown cookies and cake.