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[–] essell@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sandi Mann sounds like a fun woman

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That sounds really wrong. Is that a southern thing?

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[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years 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 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

I mean it only works with nouns that are not ending on vowels and also not every noun works good. 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?"

Other commonly used examples I can think of: