What value does this label have for English localization?
LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
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#12Related:
CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28712667 - Sept 2021 (132 comments)
CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855 - July 2019 (176 comments)
Oh no. Am I going to have to figure out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341959 again? Tweaks to HN title escaping since 20341855 are showing up just a bit there...
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That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
Related question (not really!) - two dads or moms - who should be called what?
I don't think it would be good to have a deterministic way to decide who gets to be called what in that case. The world would be a better place if we didn't make a distinction between mother and father, though obviously that's baked into almost all cultures and fully removing that would cause more problems than it would solve. Given that we don't have preexisting momentum to make a distinction between two parents of the same gender, I don't think we should try to standardize anything. Just pick two arbitrary titles like "dad" and "papa" and assign them randomly.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
Related question (not really!) - two dads or moms - who should be called what?
A few possibilities for two dads, and it would be analogous for two moms:
“Dad” (interchangeably either one)
Use different father words as per family preference. These could be variations of the same family word, like dad and daddy or papa and pops, or entirely separate words like dad and papa.
Use the dads’ first names, either with a father word or without. I know some people who call their grandma “Mama ” because she acts like a second mother; no reason it couldn’t refer to an actual mother. That happens to be a non-English example, but it could have been in English. Similarly, I know someone who addressed his (unfortunately now-deceased) parents by first name with no parent word, in English, even though he had the conventional pairing of a mother and a father.
Lots of solutions.
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Related question (not really!) - two dads or moms - who should be called what?
Not an issue: You already have two grandfathers and two grandmothers, how do you call them?
While I called my grandmothers by different names, I called both my grandfathers the same name. They were never in the same room together, so it was never an issue.
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#17LabelContactRelationFathersBrothersNephewsCousinsFormerRoommate
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#18Re: LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
#19Chinese kinship labels for the win https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
Even "Uncle". In english, Mom's brother and Dad's brother both are uncles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#20Chinese kinship labels for the win https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
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