Brian Betty wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> So here's my personal pet peeve about English - a lack of useful relati=
onal
> terms. I mean, maybe I'm a freak, but I have always made a distinction =
in
> my head between maternal and paternal grandparents, but to actually ref=
er
> to my poor Nana J as my maternal grandmother is like referring to her a=
s my
> supecalifragilisticexpialidocious, if you know what I mean. It's hard t=
o
> say and doesn't float off the tongue, but I see a real need to distingu=
ish
> the two relations. It annoys me all the time.
In my case I have two "abue" /aBwe/ from granmothers and no granfathers..=
=2E, If
I want to specify I would say "abuelita Ana" and "abuelita Eudoxia". Tha=
t's a
little thing I like from Swedish: mormor och farmor.
> So what sort of relational systems have people worked on that they thin=
k
> are unusual or interesting? Since there are nonhuman and nonhumanoid
> peoples being discussed on this list, I imagine there must be quite a
> plethora of systems to discuss ...
I was trying to figure out today how the system is for Hangkerimians. Fo=
r
historical, cultural or whatever reasons, offsprings are clearly related =
to
their mothers and lessly related to their fathers (not like Nik's Natives=
, but
quite). And due to a semiaglutinative derivation many relatioships can b=
e
traced into radicals.
There's a word for mother, a word for father and a word for mother's hous=
band.
Word for matrilinear and patrilinear grandparents, aunts and cusins. I w=
ill
post the names when I find my notes which I hope I left in my office in t=
he
Campus.
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- =BFPor qu=E9 no?
- No tiene sentido.
- =BFQu=E9 sentido? El sentido no existe.
- El sentido inverso. O el sentido norte. El sentido com=FAn, tal ve=
z. O
sin sentido, como aqu=ED.
(-- Graeville 2)