[zfxfr]

I wonder if this kind of thing is found in other languages. for example i can't think of any in French (i am French) even "it is what it is" which I would translate by " C'est comme ça" (it is like this)

[TacticalCoder]

The last in TFA with the "drink drink" is definitely done all the time in french too.

Something like the following repetition is ultra common:

"C'etait bien ?" (What is good?)

"Oui c'etait bien. Enfin, pas 'bien bien' mais... Bien". (Yes, it was good. Well, not "good good" but... Good).

The "x is x" is ultra common too, say to a kid, when it really needs to go to bed:

"J'avais dit dodo et dodo c'est dodo!" (even if it's not proper french, it's a typical way to talk to kids: "I said bedtime and bedtime is bedtime").

Even with french "verlan": *"Il etait relou. Pas relou-relou mais quand meme un peu relou!".

Also I'm sure I hear this one all the time: "Quand faut y aller, faut y aller!".

It's everywhere in french.

[djhn]

I like how you use the pronoun "it" for the child. Somewhat in line with French parenting philosophy, or is that reading too much into it?

[firstbabylonian]

In Russian, you do hear people say «что будет, то будет» — literally ”what will be will be”.

The formal rules of the language discourage tautology though. It's considered ineloquent, so it's not very common.

[jameshart]

I think French uses repetitions in a different way. I mean, it's attained the status of just a word particle in its own right in French, but Est ce que c'est - Est ce que ce est - "is it that it is" seems like a repetition embedded deep in a part of the language. Are the circumstances such that the circumstances are...

And then qu'est-ce que c'est takes it to another level - what is this, that this is?

[yamrzou]

I can think of the following sentence used in Maghrebi Arabic dialect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghrebi_Arabic):

إِلِّي صَارْ صَارْ

Which translates to: "Whatever happened, happened."

[adhesive_wombat]

Shikata ga nai in Japanese (famously fictionally adopted by the First 100 in Red Mars when they encountered difficulties when colonising Mars), as well as mei ban fa (没办法) in Chinese.

[aspenmayer]

C'est la vie.