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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Posh people: "your second cousin twice removed is the child of your grandfather's half-sister-wife's first child's [...]"

Poor people: cousins are anyone on the same layer of the family tree. Higher is aunt/uncle, and lower is niece/nephew.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Instead of poor people: that’s how the layers work at least in Latin cultures.

The “Posh” one is how it works it British cultures. They’re different, but the second one in Hispanic cultures works the same for posh or poor people.