Oh... Didn't notice that one. That's quite handy.
I still like the idea of a super generic title for those crazy cases (which I know personally can get convoluted) where I just want to say "cousin kevin" instead of "second cousin once removed kevin". English doesn't go as far generic as I wish it did sometimes and just have a "family" title (though it seems like "cousin" fills this gap in some families/usages)
You're also probably right that ckini would be better.
In general it feels like lojban could use some peppering up on titles. (from a cultural perspective. I'm not advocating gismu/lujvo creation or anything flame-baity like that)
You can use ckini, if you really want, but I don't know why you object to famti. The x3 makes it general enough.----gejyspaOn Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
So I was visiting the family and was thinking about how my wife's sisster's daughter would refer to me.
At first I liked the idea of relationships being explictely called out like mamymam etc... But now I'm wondering if it would be nice to have a really generic title for family members. I mean, how many people had an "uncle jim" who was technically a close friend of the family but has an honorary family title.
So I was thinking maybe something like {la lanzu.djim} as being a fully generic family title for when you don't want to spell out that this is "la mamymesyspeni djim"
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