#the transitive property for brothers was pretty straightforward but cousins is where it gets complicated | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

coquelicoq · 4 months ago

Text

okay so jiang jingrui is related to jiang li through her dad. ye shijie and ye mingyu are related to her through her mom. she calls ye shijie and ye mingyu familial terms for maternal relations (biaoge, older male maternal cousin, and san'jiu, mother's third brother). jiang jingrui, who is not related to them, calls them the same things as jiang li, as though they are his maternal relations. is that usual? i can't tell if that's a standard thing to do or if he is being especially expansive in his view of what's yours is mine et cetera. he's like the cousin of my cousin is my cousin...it's free biaoge. which i support, i just can't tell if he's goofy for this or not because no one else seems to be doing it.

#jiang jingrui is2g if you get me back into staying up until three writing calcunclus proofs...#the transitive property for brothers was pretty straightforward but cousins is where it gets complicated #i can see this either being a normal thing to do that everyone else is just too uptight to do #OR a totally wacky jiang jingrui thing that is supposed to indicate what a goofy free spirit he is #i don't have enough cultural context to be able to tell whether this is supposed to indicate something about him as a character or not #at first i thought he was just doing it with ye shijie and was like aw cute they're buds. but he just called ye mingyu san'jiu #and i don't think they had even met before??#he just rocks up to him in the middle of the woods and is like hey san'jiu! shijie and i are here to save the day love u byeeee #my man he doesn't even know who you are #the double #calcunclus #chinese names and titles #my posts #like at first i thought he was calling ye shijie da'ge. because that's a totally normal thing to call your friend who isn't related to you #but he's not! he's calling him biaoge! maternal cousin! which as far as i know is not a generic term but something you only call #your actual literal maternal cousins

14 notes · View notes