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Re: Personal Conjugation based on Closeness

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Friday, March 28, 2003, 23:26
t'Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:40:08 -0500
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> bsaidsiem:

> - uncles and aunts who are cousins of your parents (as opposed to > siblings) are called by different terms as well.
Since when have they counted as aunts and uncles? Aren't they cousins? (I've never understood what things like 'second cousin three times removed' means, though.) Or do they count as a subset of aunts and uncles in Chinese, hence that grouping? -- Tristan <kesuari@...> War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. - fortune.

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