Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
As Henry Gibson's Nazi in the potted plants would have said. Seriously, who wouldn't have gone to "Lucinda, your niece?" or "Lucinda, your brother Leon's niece?" (in case of family weirdness) first?
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 9:01 AM, September 14, 2011
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 12:23 PM, May 06, 2014
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Sorry for the late comment: I apparently had an old feed address for you in my reader, it stopped working, and I've only just fixed it.
Actually, I don't think this is that odd, maybe because the sort of conversation might have been likely in my family. Suppose you haven't seen Lucinda in years, but Al was just over last Thanksgiving. When just "Lucinda" didn't work, she might well figure that referring to Al would be enough. It wasn't, so just "Leon" ought to do it; he's the brother, after all.
My family had a load of convoluted connections, including some pseudo-family, and everyone of an older generation was called an aunt or uncle. It could be daunting to sort it out, but the relatives who were present were usually much less help in the sorting than they might have been.
I don't know why she didn't go to "your nephew". If he's your brother's nephew, he's either your nephew or your son, right?
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