• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 hours 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.

    • itslilith
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      8 hours ago

      That sounds really wrong. Is that a southern thing?

      • weker01@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours 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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      7 hours ago

      By this reasoning the Saudi roysl family are chibi Sauds?