Windows Rant

[ruscook]

On 13/07/10 07:52, Res wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
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> <snipped many pages of irrelevance>
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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
>>
>> In English they both translate to 'family'. It seems that the English
>>
>> 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).
>>
> "immediate family" (husband/wife/mother/father/brother/sister) is what
> it's called here, some friends in England also refer to it as same.
and the complement is the extended family. meaning cousins, brother in 
laws, aunts, uncles etc..

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