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Re: THEORY: Reduplication

From:julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>
Date:Thursday, May 23, 2002, 15:13
Christophe Grandsire wrote :

>Don't forget the most important: papa and maman :)) . And I never used
pépé >and
>mémé but papi and mami.
I think pépé and mémé are not standard but southern French. My girlfriend laughs at me when I say that (she comes from Brittany) but I can't say papi and mami (I thought it was written papy and mamy,oops!).
>> And if I remember well, the famous Toto we find in every child-joke >> comes from Christophe :) > >I thought it came from Thomas? Anyway, when she was very young, my
sister
>couldn't pronounce the consonant clusters of my name and I got from
that >the
>nickname Tita, followed later by Titof (when she mastered coda
consonants >;)) ). You must be right ;). Cricri does exist for Christophe, doesn't it? Julien.

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