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   From: OurOwnRonnieBateman@earthlinc.net   
      
   Professor Bubba  wrote:   
      
   > > One other minor thing always grates on me: how heavily Betty's father   
   > > leans on that term of endearment "Mia." He says it so often, it's almost   
   > > like a tic.   
   >   
   > Mija.  It's a conflation of "mi hija," or "my girl."  He says it often   
   > because Spanish-speaking fathers do that.   
      
   Oh, OK. I wondered if I had spelled it wrong, and actually tried to   
   Google this before posting but didn't get anywhere.   
      
   I'm sure Spanish-speaking fathers "do that" but, like, multiple times   
   within a single short conversation? It seems very unnatural to me, like   
   a guy talking to his girlfriend and saying "Let's go out tonight, Mary.   
   Maybe we could go to Sizzler, Mary. How does that sound, Mary?"   
      
   > This show has lots and lots of other, more noteworthy problems.  I saw   
   > a few minutes of it last week for the first time in several years.   
   > Awful.  And what happened to Becky Newton's face?   
      
   Well, you're not naming any of these "lots and lots" problems, beyond   
   something which is even more trivial than "Mija."   
      
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