Re: Kinship system

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:32:10 -0500, Amanda Babcock Furrow
<langs@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:53:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>
> > It sounds interesting. Unfortunately my computer can't read Word docs.
> > Maybe image files? And the pdf is coming up blank, so I can't even see
> > that.
>
> I've put up new versions which are ostensibly HTML files (Word-generated,
> and uses o:shapelayout tags; my Firefox is too expensive to start on my
> system right now, could somebody confirm if browsers other than IE can
> read this?)
>
> http://www.quandary.org/~langs/merechi/kinship.tomo.html
> http://www.quandary.org/~langs/merechi/kinship.tora.html
>
> Now it has some color-coding for interesting classes such as marriageable
> persons, a class of same-sex ancestors and elder siblings known as nània,
> and by way of example of the -sèbit suffix, the individual's anànë-sèbit
> is marked where it doesn't conflict with the nània.
>
> tylakèhlpë'fö,
> Amanda
Thanks; those are really nice diagrams (especially with the color-coding), and
an interesting kinship system too. I imagine it's confusing to outsiders: "Now,
you say you can marry one nephew but not the other???"

I didn't know you could do that sort of thing with HTML, but then FF1 doesn't
know either.

Jeff

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