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• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In German this literally translates to something like “cute sand man”. Because in German you can just add an " I" at the end of any noun to make it sound cute and small. So “Sandi” can be thought of as a kind of diminutive of the noun “Sand”, similar to “Bauchi” from “Bauch” which is stomach. The correct dimunitve of “Bauch” would be “Bäuchlein” but this refers more to the perceived size of the object.

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds really wrong. Is that a southern thing?

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    • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea it’s definitely a dialect thing but a rather common one. I don’t know where it is spoken most tho…

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean it only works with nouns that are not ending on vowels. But I heard this from people all over Germany. Mostly in a mocking way, like someone was eating too much and complaining about stomach pain:
      “Oh, tut dir der Bauchi weh?”

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve only ever really heard it for a handful of very specific nouns, like Maus -> Mausi as an affectionate nickname

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like ‘y’ in English. Dog, doggy. Sam, Sammy.

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cat, catty would like a word ;)

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      • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are no innocent cats, that is the reason why there are no catties

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  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By this reasoning the Saudi roysl family are chibi Sauds?

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  • Spider2013@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about handi?

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• b3an@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At first I thought that was part of the transcription too and my brain was trying to make some sense of it. And for some reason threw at me:

  San…Di…Ma…s High School football rules!

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