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Not another contribution to this thread, but…

 

My wife dragged me Christmas gift shopping for her young cousins (which is a term that confuses me), and we ended up getting a set of the Kontour game for one of the ten(?)-year-olds, and a set of Rory's Story Cubes for her younger sister. (Last year we gave them Pilot Plumix pens and blank Paperblanks journals in which to draw.)

 

I've been trying out the idea of Kontour with fountain pens, and it's not bloody easy to do actually!

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3 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I've been trying out the idea of Kontour with fountain pens, and it's not bloody easy to do actually!

Looks fun, though! :)  Sort of like Pictionary.

 

7 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

cousins (which is a term that confuses me),

Wow.  Makes me glad I'm not from a culture where I have to know this sort of thing - I have to use a spreadsheet just to figure out how the whole numbered cousins thing (first, second, etc.) and "n times removed" works - it makes sense when I'm looking at the spreadsheet, but an hour later, I can't remember it anymore!

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6 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Looks fun, though! :)  Sort of like Pictionary.

 

Not being able to draw circles or even curved lines, when trying to convey something pictorially, is hard! Especially if you're only allowed 15 (straight) lines in total.

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12 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Makes me glad I'm not from a culture where I have to know this sort of thing

 

These two lists capture all(?) of the terms the Chinese use for different types of cousins:

and that's before factoring the ‘rank’ within a family unit or generation into the term of address for an individual.

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13 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Especially if you're only allowed 15 (straight) lines in total.

I agree with that.  I'm not too awful at Pictionary, depending on the word, but that limit + the time-limit would be very challenging.

 

4 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

These two lists capture all(?) of the terms the Chinese use for different types of cousins:

and that's before factoring the ‘rank’ within a family unit or generation into the term of address for an individual.

DId I mention I was glad? :lol:

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