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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: catching up with families #132502 09/02/2004 8:19 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui > 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". noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted photomicrograph johnjohn 09/02/2004 12:17 AM Re: photomicrograph Buffalo Shrdlu 09/02/2004 12:38 AM Re: photomicrograph Father Steve 09/02/2004 3:07 AM Re: photomicrograph wsieber 09/02/2004 5:04 AM Re: photomicrograph Shellb 09/02/2004 5:36 AM Re: photomicrograph Wordwind 09/02/2004 8:07 PM Re: former brother-in-law Faldage 09/02/2004 10:03 AM Re: former brother-in-law Father Steve 09/03/2004 4:30 AM Re: former brother-in-law wsieber 09/03/2004 5:37 AM Re: former brother-in-law belMarduk 09/03/2004 12:28 PM Re: former brother-in-law musick 09/04/2004 2:44 PM Re: catching up with families sjmaxq 09/02/2004 8:19 PM team think grapho 09/03/2004 12:34 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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