Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child?
t_378@lemmy.one 2 months agoThis is a phenomenal resource! In all my years, I haven’t actually heard anyone say “once removed” in story telling. I would almost feel weird saying it, despite it being technically correct. It’s like saying “whom” out loud, you might be right, but people start mocking you.
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XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only story telling I’ve heard it used was A Series of Unfortunate Events. Pretty sure each caretaker gets a cousin designation. But that, of course, is entirely fiction in an excessively diverse, rich, bodacious literary presentation filled to the brim with grimly austere vernacular from the Vocabulary For Defiants.
t_378@lemmy.one 1 month ago
With such sharp, acidic wit, you might say the prose is… Lemony.