[CONLANG] In-law kinship terms?
| From: | Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 12, 2007, 1:13 |
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:01:08PM -0500, Jim Henry wrote:
> In fact there is also
>
> tax-mla-toxl: spouse's sibling's spouse
> tax-toxl-mla: sibling's spouse's sibling
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> The first of these English also describes as "brother-" or "sister-in-law"
> (at least in my 'lect); as for the second, I'm not sure if English has
> a term for it.
If I remember correctly, according to one broadcast of the Car Guys, the
term is "He's nothin' to you!" :)
Amanda