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Languages like Polish are even worse, because you have to go in reverse, from the person described to yourself. It's the great great grandmother of the cousin o
by miki123211 3y ago
Languages like Polish are even worse, because you have to go in reverse, from the person described to yourself. It's the great great grandmother of the cousin of the uncle of the ex wife of your sister, not your sister's ex wife's uncle's great great grandmother.
- pndy 3y agoThe Old Polish had some pretty cool sounding terms for describing family relations that become forgotten, changed or dropped in favor of other words dziewierz - husband's brother sounds way more cooler than szwagier imo
- notpushkin 3y agoI think we still say that in Russian sometimes! (Although very, very rarely) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1...
- smsm42 3y agoRussian has some neat words for in-law relationships, but I'd say vast majority of the population never uses it and has to hit the dictionary when they encounter it in the literature. Which IMHO is a pity.
- alexfoo 3y agoAh. Reverse Polish notation!