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2 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I mean “parent’s sibling” does seem more efficient from a drafting standpoint than saying “parent’s brother, sister, step-brother, or step-sister.” Having drafted conflicts language in other contexts, it gets pretty clunky fast.
Bonus P.S., The Chinese words to describe family relations are *way* more complicated than those in English, with differences based not only on whether the person is older or younger but which side of the family they come from. blog.tutorming.com/mandarin-chine…
The point being, the things that we sometimes think of being structurally inherent in the make up of the universe are just cultural practices. There are examples on both the left and right of examples of this.
BTW, I loved this chart of the names for Chinese family relationships

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