It's interesting how the English language has a unisex and gender specific word for siblings/brothers/sister, only gender specific words for nieces/nephews, and only a unisex word for cousins, amirite?

+119 It's interesting how the English language has a unisex and gender specific word for siblings/brothers/sister, only gender specific words for nieces/nephews, and only a unisex word for cousins, amirite?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

In Bangla/Bengali, you can say cousin and not only will you know the gender but you'll know whether the cousin is from mom's side or dad's side and you'll know if the cousin is the child of mom/dad's brother or sister it's just that specific

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I forgot for a second you're Bengali too! goo

Yeah, my dad and I were just talking about that yesterday. It's pretty amazing how important family is to us.

by Anonymous 11 years ago