Re: [lojban] auntie/uncle

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 26 December 2011 12:58:10 Luke Bergen 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"

I'd say that do famtyspe ko'a. "la lanzu.djim" is ungrammatical; you can 
say "la .lanz.djim" (in dotside) or "la .ckin.djim" or "la noi ckini .djim."

Pierre

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