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Think about it this way: your brother in law is your child's uncle.
by gweinberg 3y ago
Think about it this way: your brother in law is your child's uncle.
- richardw 3y ago…except when the uncle is your brother.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoOnly if all of your children are with the same spouse.
- kmac_ 3y agoRight now at Apple's HQ: "New labels are required for ex-brother-in-law."
- adastra22 3y agoMost languages don’t have a word as generic as “uncle” in this context.
- joenot443 3y agoI found it neat to learn that Chinese has 5 separate words for what we in English call Uncle. 1. (father’s older brother) 伯父 [bófù] (位, wèi) 2. (father’s younger brother) 叔父 [shūfù] (位, wèi) 3. (father’s sister’s husband) 姑父 [gūfu] (位, wèi) 4. (mother’s brother) 舅父 [jiùfù] (位, wèi) 5. (mother’s sister’s husband) 姨父 [yífu] (位, wèi)
- vrc 3y agoIt gets even more complex when there are regional and family differences in the naming schema. For example, my cousins on my moms side and dads sides respectively use different words for some relations, and then they sometimes use an entirely different set of words with their other sides of the family. All in the same language, but based on background, dialect, etc. So my working knowledge of naming schema ends up being very, very large. Thankfully the relations they map to are standardized in the language so it's just word swapping.