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Re: You have a word for it?

From:Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...>
Date:Thursday, February 7, 2002, 0:00
>>!!! I say sibling all the time. "Three siblings" is a lot faster to say
than "Two brothers and one sister"! Clint<< As do I, and most people seem to know what I mean (even my peers, which are teenagers), so it must be in some sort of common use.
>>But in the singular? Would you ever say "She is my sibling"? For what
it's worth, I usually don't even use sibling in the plural. I'd usually say something like, for example, "Do you have any brothers or sisters?" rather than "Do you have any siblings". I might use "siblings" in a specific case like that, "He has three siblings"<< I use it either way, since I only have one sibling. But yeah, most people probably don't use sibling in the singular as often as plural. On a "side" note: in my conlang... sibling: zalo brother: zaloyo sister: zaloyi ;) ===== The Aquamarine Demon "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." -Mark Twain __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com