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Is having a unique word that much of an improvement over "paternal grandmother" vs "maternal grandmother"? Or is it that you're referring to other relations th
by dfawcus 2y ago
Is having a unique word that much of an improvement over "paternal grandmother" vs "maternal grandmother"?
Or is it that you're referring to other relations than those two having unique words? If so then that would seem to introduce its own problems in ballooning the vocabulary.
Maybe English is just happier with the ambiguity?
- com2kid 2y agoOne word helps make it easier. I got very tired, very quickly, even as a kid, of saying "Grandma on my Dad's side". I had two Uncles with the same name, again, "Uncle <foo> on my Dad's side" is a PITA after awhile.