@Marthaª The relationships are symmetrical. Your parent's cousins are your second cousins. Your cousin's children are first cousins once removed. (so you're right)
@GraceNote Removed just means one generation down.
I'm going to the christening of my Cousin's first son soon. What is the proper name for his relation to me?
2nd Nephew? Nephew once removed? Nothing?
Looking at the overall picture, whats the accepted rule for the naming of all of our various relations?
General John Allen reports US soldiers killed a group of Taliban:
"We dealt with them in a kinetic strike."
What's the meaning of "kinetic" here?
Timothy Noah says the word is used to designate actual warfare (guns fired etc.), not just countermeasures and deployment.
Does Allen mean just that...
@RegDwightѬſ道 If I'm reading the chart correctly, I'm right: the child of my parent's cousin is my second cousin. What's confusing is that both said parent's cousin, and my cousin's children, are my first cousins once removed.
@Marthaª You have the right interpretation. "removed" indicates the size of the generational gap. So your first cousins are the same generation as you, their children are one generation away.
@Cerberus Well, we certainly don't have it in Hungarian, either; but in most ways, the Hungarian system is even more confusing, because there simply aren't words for most of these relationships.
@Marthaª I literally felt like that when she was a baby. I wanted to just shove her right into my mouth. Now I tease her and say "I'm going to eat you! Om nom nom!" and she says "No! Don't eat me! Then you wouldn't have me anymore!"
@MrShinyandNew安宇 It's the conclusion we've come to regarding my niece: the reason there's any of her left for me to nibble on the weekend is that she grows back from the various parental nibblings.
@JSBᾶngs Reminds me of a Tim Minchin joke, from his comedy routine. He tells a story about how he adopted his daughter from an orphanage in Romania and so now he tells her how if she's bad, he'll just send her back. He says "she's very well behaved now", but when an audience member says "you're mean!" he replied, "you think that's mean? She's not even adopted!"
Another theory we've come up with: the reason for those 3:00 a.m. wake-up-screaming-and-inconsolable sessions is to keep her parents from melting into piles of adoring-but-useless goo.
yes, children have to occasionally make their parents contemplate the ethical implications of infanticide. otherwise we would all die of glucose overdose
@JSBᾶngs Yeah, I see what you mean. I've flagged it for deletion. However, it does point to the fact that maybe this isn't a gen-ref question, because looking up the individual words isn't likely to fully explain the phrase. However, we do need lots more context to even attempt to answer it.
@Cerberus It was a single-player game. And I never did it again... she got too big for the pillow. But at the time, I was like "wee! parenting is easy!"
@Cerberus Sort of. I guess I've been pretty lucky as far as parenting goes, my kids are pretty good and easy to care for. some people have it much harder than I do.
Actually it'd be nice to know that A) you can edit posts (I learned from observation, but it's not obvious that a chat room would have that feature) and B) you can delete posts, but C) sometimes you can't (and why), but also D) some of this stuff will be in the transcript forever.
A) Normal users can edit their most recent chat posts as long as it has been under 2 minutes since then. Moderators can edit any chat post at any time.
B) You can delete your own posts within 2 minutes. Moderators can delete at any time. There is no undelete.
D) Everything is in the transcript. Deleted posts cannot be seen in the browsed transcript, but they still exist on the server and can be viewed by moderators through the chat UI.
I think the transcript and the editability should be more prominently noted somewhere so that people don't unwittingly reveal more than they think is easily accessible.
In sentences like "Go home," the 'You' is implied, as in 'You go home.'
What would be the implied words/full form of the sentence "Poor you"?
It certainly isn't "You are poor."
** I am editing this question to clarify what I'm looking for - I know what the meaning of this sentence is (both mea...
@Cerberus Eh. He doesn't come right out and say that "you go home" has little to do with "go home", and he really doesn't explain the mechanics of "poor you".
As it stands, I've got... nohat as "regular", and Mr. Shiny as "tentative" moreso than "regular". There's speech of people voicing their conviction months ago, but I'm not seeing any names today.
From your comment to Penelov I think the word you are looking for is cocoon.
Cocoon noun 2. any of various similar protective coverings in nature, as the silky case in which certain spiders enclose their eggs.
You can use it metaphorically in your sentence:
A guy in his cocoon
It woul...
Ideally you want at least one post per week, but a few per week is nice. You don't have to write every week, though. Twice a month or even once a month is enough as long as there are enough people writing.
I'm not sure how much time I'll have when school starts up. I already write weekly for an established blog, and I'm not sure how long it'll take me to write stuff for this
The Powers That Be have bestowed upon us a new feature: Stack Exchange community blogs. There's also a Stack Exchange blog post about it.
I think a blog for the English Language & Usage site is a great idea. We could use it to:
Provide hints and tips to users on how to write better answer...
@Martha -- so that this doesn't show up as a comment on the question, your advice was great. Unfortunately we gave that user advice before and he never took it.
The question of "...what do people mean, when they quote this figure-of-speech by itself" is hard to answer w/o context ('by itself', indicates an unprovoked declarative statement as opposed to a response of some sort). I equate the term 'strained' with 'compromised', meaning mercy, as a concept...
@GraceNote Hi Grace Note, I'd like to re-iterate my tentative commitment (woo! oxymoron!). Since it's not clear (to me) what is needed for this blog, I can't say for sure how often I can contribute. But depending on the topics needed and the required research/post-length I would like to help.
@GraceNote I could do once per month if writing each article isn't tooo hard. I have no problem writing when I have something to say, but EL&U is a bit outside my normal subject area (in terms of authoritative blog posts) so I expect good blog posts will be a bit harder.
@GraceNote: I guess when it comes to blogging for this site, I'm personally not sure what topics I'd write about. I don't have something in mind (or else I'd probably have already blogged about it). So I'm volunteering to take on assignments. I think we need someone to not only assign schedules but also topics.
I'm going to the christening of my Cousin's first son soon. What is the proper name for his relation to me?
2nd Nephew? Nephew once removed? Nothing?
Looking at the overall picture, whats the accepted rule for the naming of all of our various relations?
General John Allen reports US soldiers killed a group of Taliban:
"We dealt with them in a kinetic strike."
What's the meaning of "kinetic" here?
Timothy Noah says the word is used to designate actual warfare (guns fired etc.), not just countermeasures and deployment.
Does Allen mean just that...
What does the speaker mean by that ?
This figure blows my mind
In sentences like "Go home," the 'You' is implied, as in 'You go home.'
What would be the implied words/full form of the sentence "Poor you"?
It certainly isn't "You are poor."
** I am editing this question to clarify what I'm looking for - I know what the meaning of this sentence is (both mea...
I have seen Shameful and Shameless being used interchangeably, but it is surprising that they would mean the same.
Is there a difference?
From your comment to Penelov I think the word you are looking for is cocoon.
Cocoon noun 2. any of various similar protective coverings in nature, as the silky case in which certain spiders enclose their eggs.
You can use it metaphorically in your sentence:
A guy in his cocoon
It woul...
The Powers That Be have bestowed upon us a new feature: Stack Exchange community blogs. There's also a Stack Exchange blog post about it.
I think a blog for the English Language & Usage site is a great idea. We could use it to:
Provide hints and tips to users on how to write better answer...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…