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Jim Ward - 16 Jan 2004 16:05 GMT

A credit card commercial uses this and Babelfish doesn't translate it. :(
Does it mean "Hot Mama", "Little Mama", "Sita, the Mother of us all",
or something else?

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Sara Lorimer - 16 Jan 2004 16:15 GMT

> A credit card commercial uses this and Babelfish doesn't translate it. :(
> Does it mean "Hot Mama", "Little Mama", "Sita, the Mother of us all",
> or something else?

Mamacita. An endearment.

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Pat Durkin - 16 Jan 2004 16:27 GMT

> A credit card commercial uses this and Babelfish doesn't translate it. :(
> Does it mean "Hot Mama", "Little Mama", "Sita, the Mother of us all",
> or something else?

Mommie, or Mama are about the nearest translations, but the situation
determines the translation.

Thus, Hot Mama and Little Mama can serve, but not "Sita etc."

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Martin Ambuhl - 16 Jan 2004 18:11 GMT

> A credit card commercial uses this and Babelfish doesn't translate it. :(
> Does it mean "Hot Mama", "Little Mama", "Sita, the Mother of us all",
> or something else?

Not "mamasita" (as hidden in the subject line for those not noticing), but
"mamacita." It is used for either a mama and for a mujer atractiva. It is
also the way we address my 86-year-old tri-lingual (English/Spanish/Arabic)
mother-in-law.

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Bill Schnakenberg - 16 Jan 2004 19:42 GMT

> A credit card commercial uses this and Babelfish doesn't translate it. :(
> Does it mean "Hot Mama", "Little Mama", "Sita, the Mother of us all",
> or something else?

"Mamacita, donde esta Santa Claus"?
Jose Feliciano

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