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> and in view of nowaday's widespread "patchwork families", language has some catching-up to do
Recently, I was disappointed to learn that Hindi is going the other way. Despite having different words for aunt and uncle, to distinguish between biological and marriage-related versions, all the Hindi speakers I associate with simply use "aunt" and "uncle".
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted photomicrograph johnjohn 09/02/04 12:17 AM Re: photomicrograph Buffalo Shrdlu 09/02/04 12:38 AM Re: photomicrograph Father Steve 09/02/04 03:07 AM Re: photomicrograph wsieber 09/02/04 05:04 AM Re: photomicrograph Shellb 09/02/04 05:36 AM Re: photomicrograph Wordwind 09/02/04 08:07 PM Re: former brother-in-law Faldage 09/02/04 10:03 AM Re: former brother-in-law Father Steve 09/03/04 04:30 AM Re: former brother-in-law wsieber 09/03/04 05:37 AM Re: former brother-in-law belMarduk 09/03/04 12:28 PM Re: former brother-in-law musick 09/04/04 02:44 PM Re: catching up with families sjmaxq 09/02/04 08:19 PM team think grapho 09/03/04 12:34 PM
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