\"mamita\" and \"papito\" in this context. - sweetie-pie & honey-bunch ( translation glossary) Soap Opera,Linguistics,Art/Literary

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Spanish term or phrase:	"mamita" and "papito" in this context.
English translation:	sweetie-pie & honey-bunch
Entered by:	Stuart Allsop

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11:31pm Sep 17, 2004

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Spanish term or phrase: "mamita" and "papito" in this context.

Script for a Mexican soap opera. A pair of lovers are always referring to each other as "mamita" and "papito". I can't really use "mommy" and "daddy" here, and I can't seem to come up with anything that fits.

Example, in a love letter: "Bueno Mamita, cuidateme mucho! Te adoro! Tu papito."

Stuart Allsop

KudoZ activity
Questions: 432 (9 open)
Answers: 835

Chile

sweetie pie

Explanation:
One of many terms of affection between lovers and close friends.

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Note added at 3 mins (2004-09-17 23:34:53 GMT)
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Also sugar cone, my darling, my precious. You can use practically any to translate mamita and papito.

Selected response from:

Rene Ron
Venezuela

Note from asker to answerer

You'll all be VERY glad to know that the soapy script is now finished! Thanks to EVERYONE for all their help, both on this question and on all the others. You have no idea how much help you've been, with your enthusiastic suggestions and lively debates. VERY much appreciated!

I left grading this one util last, because it was the toughest. In the end, I went with "sweetie-pie" for "mamita", and "honey-bunch" for "papito". Yeah, I know it sounds forced, not very contemporary, low-class, even a bit "chulo" (Chilean slang). But so was the original, and these actually fit the context pretty well.

Once again, thanks to everyone who helped out here!
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +8

honey, darling, sweetie

Irene Cudich

5 +3

dearie, honey, baby, toots, sugar, lovey, love of my life

Lillian van den Broeck

5 +2

sweetie pie

Rene Ron

5 +1

sweety, hon, darling,babe

MATRIX TRANSL

4 +1

baby and daddy

Marian Greenfield

honey bunny

Exequiela Goldini

Momma / Poppa

CarolynB

(little/pretty) mamma or daddy/pappa

Deborah Workman

hot mamma/ daddio/ baby

Cecilia Della Croce

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

mamita y papito honey, darling, sweetie

Explanation:
Es una forma cariñosa de referirse a la pareja, puedes sustituirlo por cualquier término cariñoso en inglés. Suerte!!

Irene Cudich
Argentina
Native speaker of:

Spanish

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

mamita sweetie pie

Explanation:
One of many terms of affection between lovers and close friends.

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Note added at 3 mins (2004-09-17 23:34:53 GMT)
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Also sugar cone, my darling, my precious. You can use practically any to translate mamita and papito.

Rene Ron
Venezuela
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

Note from asker to answerer

4 mins confidence:

honey bunny

Explanation:
otra opción:
honey bunny

Exequiela Goldini
United States
Native speaker of:

Spanish

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

baby and daddy

Explanation:
as in the overused line... whose your daddy...

Marian Greenfield
United States
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 43

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

dearie, honey, baby, toots, sugar, lovey, love of my life

Explanation:
Random House Thesaurus of Slang, Esther Lewin, Albert E. Lewin

Lillian van den Broeck
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

17 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

mamita, papito sweety, hon, darling,babe

Explanation:
You may use any of these either for "mamita" or "papito"

MATRIX TRANSL
Canada
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 7

24 mins confidence:

mamita or papito (in this context) (little/pretty) mamma or daddy/pappa

Explanation:
See little mamma: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22little+...

See pretty mamma (even the Beach Boys song is quoted!): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22pretty+...

See daddy (as in sugar daddy): http://www.lyricsondemand.com/m/mariahcareylyrics/loverboyly...
"Sugar daddy" does connote that the man is a lavish provider of material things, but just "daddy" -- as in "who's your daddy" -- can mean caretaker (in the tender sense, not the legal or zoo ! sense).

An older couple, especially a working class couple, may call each other Ma and Pa or Mom and Pops, in certain parts of the States, but a younger couple is more likely to use (if they use this type of language) mamma and daddy or pappa. I have the impression that among the younger generation it's much more common that a man would refer to his wife lovingly as mamma than that a woman would call her husband daddy or pappa. Where it is used, pappa may be a little more common than daddy (which to some ears carries sinister overtones of incest or pimping).

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Note added at 25 mins (2004-09-17 23:56:16 GMT)
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If you don\'t like either of these, you can just use \"LOVERGIRL/LOVERBOY\" or \"LOVER\", though you lose the nuance of mamita/papito.

Deborah Workman
United States
Native speaker of:

English

1 hr confidence:

hot mamma/ daddio/ baby

Explanation:
algunas opciones más, un poquito menos delicadas

Cecilia Della Croce
Argentina
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 28

10 hrs confidence:

Momma / Poppa

Explanation:
this works nicely here

CarolynB
Brazil
Native speaker of:

English

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Spanish: "mamita" and "papito" in this context.

English translation: sweetie-pie & honey-bunch