Re: Relations
| From: | Fabian <rhialto@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 12, 1999, 17:54 |
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>Brian Betty wrote:
>
>> 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 refer
>> to my poor Nana J as my maternal grandmother is like referring to her as
my
>> supecalifragilisticexpialidocious, if you know what I mean.
>
>My daughter (age 12) has distinct names (not descriptions) for her four
>grandparents: my parents (deceased) are Gramma /gr&ma/ and Grampa
>/gr&mpa/, and my wife's parents (alive) are Granmommy /gr&(n)mami/ and
>Grandaddy /gr&nd&di/.
In my case it was easier, having a few languages in the family. On my dad's
side it was granny and grandad, on my mum's it was nanu and nanna. Maltese,
if you must know.
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Fabian
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