"Gato" is a cat and "gatito" is a kitten but it just doesn't roll off the tongue the same. "Gato" could work because it has the same number of syllables, but "gatito" is just plain wrong sounding
It's one of those things that would make Arsenio Hall go "hmmm"...if he still had a late night talk show. Speaking of Arsenio, how did he ever play the "Name Game"? You remember that song? Mary, Mary, bo berry, bo na na fanna Fo ferry? Multisyllabic first names like Arsenio just don't work. Parents should think of shit like this before they give their kids weird names. I thought he could have just used his first syllable, but that would be Ar & that's not a name, it's a misspelled word (are). Then I thought the first few letters, but that would be Arse, British for "ass". No good...and why do they put an "r" in ass anyway? People with British accents always sound so prim and proper, kinda like they're really smart, and then they go and pronounce "ass" wrong.
I finally had to go to the all-knowing Google...to satisfy my cat killing curiosity. Kitty is "bote" in Spanish. Pronounced "bow-tay". It works...kinda like "kitty" does. Who'd a thunk it?
Not quite a deep thinker, am I? It's The Stoopidist Thing...
