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The Difference Between Brother and Sister in Law and Other Languages

In other languages, for example, in spanish, you have lots of distinct words for the different relations. In arabic there are different words for your uncles or aunts depending on whether they are paternal or maternal uncles. And so let's expand beyond brother and sister to brothers and sisters in law and the broader set of relations brought in by marriage. T other languages do a better job of specifying those than english does, well yet, definitely. So in english, we have the weird suffolx in law, and we say brother in law and sister in law. french is a prefix, which is at least nicer. You can say your belle mare or your

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