Re: Kinship terminology
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 15:53 |
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:20:54AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
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> I think you missed the point. Adrian is calling for a term that means
> "aunt or uncle", just as "sibling" means "brother or sister" and "parent"
> means "father or mother". This is *less* specific than English, not more
> specific.
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Oh, oops :-) I guessed I totally missed the point then, hehe... Sorry
about that rant!
Well, as to a generic term for aunt/uncle, couldn't some of the
Latin/Greek literate among us coin up an appropriate term? After all,
we're, *ahem*, linguists aren't we? *ducks*
T