Re: All in the family.
| From: | Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 0:10 |
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>I was just wondering about different ways to refer to relatives in
>different languages (artificial or natural). There seems to be a lot of
>different ways to do it in natural languages. Most distingish by sex,
>some others also by age. Chinese has different words for "older
>brother" and "younger brother" for example. In Swedish it's not just
>"grandfather" but "farfar" (father's father" or "morfar" (mother's
>father.
>
Japanese distinguishes between "formal" and "informal" versions of the same
particular relative. The informal version is used when talking *about* your
own relative, while the formal version is used when you're talking directly
to them, or if you're talking about somebody else's.
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