top | item 43004867 (no title) ouchjars | 1 year ago -o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo". discuss order hn newest mjd|1 year ago My own kiddo, at the age of two or three, decided that -o was a productive suffix and started calling me and her mother "Daddo" and "Mommo". unknown|1 year ago [deleted] o11c|1 year ago I don't think that's actually a diminutive (meaning shifts to add smallness or endearment), just a colloquializer (meaning doesn't change, just becomes less formal; dialects may adopt a particular informal word as standard). wink|1 year ago not sure psycho counts, as it works in every language that uses the greek? latin? base.Also I kinda liked learning about smoko, even as a non-smoker.
mjd|1 year ago My own kiddo, at the age of two or three, decided that -o was a productive suffix and started calling me and her mother "Daddo" and "Mommo". unknown|1 year ago [deleted]
o11c|1 year ago I don't think that's actually a diminutive (meaning shifts to add smallness or endearment), just a colloquializer (meaning doesn't change, just becomes less formal; dialects may adopt a particular informal word as standard).
wink|1 year ago not sure psycho counts, as it works in every language that uses the greek? latin? base.Also I kinda liked learning about smoko, even as a non-smoker.
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wink|1 year ago
Also I kinda liked learning about smoko, even as a non-smoker.