Windows Rant

[Patton Echols]

Res wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
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>> language. In Dutch we have two words:
>> "gezin" = the small family group that you live with in the same house
>> "familie" = the group of all your relatives
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>> In English they both translate to 'family'. It seems that the English
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>> I think that this is the most important cause of the current confusion.
>> What I intended to say was, quality time with my wife (=my family,
>> "gezin" in Dutch) is more important than fixing the computer of the
>> husband of my sister (= also family).
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> "immediate family" (husband/wife/mother/father/brother/sister) is what 
> it's called here, some friends in England also refer to it as same.
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Also known as "nuclear family".  As in the center of an atom . . . and 
with the same consequences when you try and split one!