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Tuesday 2006-07-18
I was thinking about what we should encourage
Child
to call the grandparents-to-be, and it suddenly occurred to me:
if we were to revive the rather old-fashioned words
"Grandpapa" and "Grandmama", we could tweak them to
disambiguate between maternal and paternal grandparents:
you have Grandmama and Grandmapa, and Grandpama and Grandpapa.
And, even better, this gives a simple way of referring to
people further up the tree:
Grandmamapama, etc.
Emma: ... and he said, And so we say, not goodbye but ...
um, what's the French for "auf wiedersehen"?.
Gareth R:
The French for "auf wiedersehen" is "hasta la vista".
J L Mackie's The miracle of theism
gives theism a pretty fair hearing but finds it seriously wanting. Mackie's book is
showing its age a bit now, but is still well worth reading for anyone interested
in the subject.