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I can't help but think we'd be better off using tree navigation operators and gender as types. Li(ft), do(wn), si(deways), like lisp's car, cdr, caaadr, etc.. A
by kongin 5y ago
I can't help but think we'd be better off using tree navigation operators and gender as types. Li(ft), do(wn), si(deways), like lisp's car, cdr, caaadr, etc.. And adding m(ale) and fe(male) at the end of the word as types.
E.g. paternal uncle would be lim-sim. Maternal grandmother's son's daughter: life-life-dom-dofe.
Utterly pointless and ridiculous but so much more sensible than having a dozen different words which contain less information than what we care about.
- euroderf 5y agoMaybe Loglan does it in such a way ?
- kongin 5y agoI have no idea. Does Loglan allow for defining new DLSs?
- raxxorrax 5y agoDoesn't work in case of incest. Just thinking of edge cases here...
- dmurray 5y agoWhy not? Where someone has more than one relationship to you, you can either mention both or the closer one, as we do in English. "This is my son" (or son and nephew). "Cletus is Hank's father" (or father and grandfather). The suggested tree navigation operators don't rely on the structure being strictly a tree.
- kongin 5y agoThat works if we assume no time travel so we get acyclic graphs. Time travelling incest is beyond the scope of this dsl however.
- bregma 5y agoTime travel or mountain folk. Banjos can be a funny thing and you never know what'll happen when you strum the ol' hammer claw.
- jan_Inkepa 5y agoA relative once said to me "The reason I get on with my aunt so well is that she's also my cousin". Islander life, islander values...
- _dain_ 5y agoThat isn't even an edge case; some countries have double-digit percentage of consanguineous marriage.
- bradrn 5y agoSimilar notation is standard in linguistics (and probably other fields too): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology#Abbreviations_for_genealogical_relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology#Abbreviati.... e.g. ‘Maternal grandmother's son's daughter’ would be MMSD.