Re: [lojban] What's the deal with me'ispe and bunspe?

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

On Sunday, March 04, 2012 23:48:44 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Why is bunspe defined as sister-in-law and me'ispe is brother-in-law?
> That's completely backwards.
> 
> Specifically, brother-in-law (me'ispe) is defined as "x1 is the spouse of
> the sister of x2 under law/custom/etc. x3"
> and sister-in-law (bunspe) is defined as "x1 is the spouse of the brother
> of x2 under law/custom/etc. x3"
> 
> What if the spouse of the sister is a woman? Or the spouse of the brother a
> man? What about the sister or brother of the spouse?

If the spouse of the sister is a woman, she is sister-in-law and me'ispe. 
Conversely if the spouse of the brother is a man. The sibling of the spouse cu 
spebruna ja spemensi. Whoever wrote the def wasn't thinking that two women 
could be married to each other.

> By the current definitions, a woman who is married to a woman with a sister
> is a brother-in-law, and a woman married to someone with a sister has no
> lujvo. It also doesn't work for the relationship between a sibling of one
> spouse and a sibling of the other spouse.

A brother of one spouse cu me'irspebu'a a brother of the other spouse.

Pierre
-- 
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