rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) (06/05/85)
If relations through marriage are "in-laws" how about calling relations through cohabitation "out-laws". For example, my friend Mark could refer to his sister's lesbian lover as his sister-out-law. -- Rob Bernardo, San Francisco, California {nsc,ucbvax,decwrl,amd,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!rob _^__ ~/ \_.\ _ ~/ \_\ ~/ \_________~/ ~/ /\ /\ _/ \ / \ _/ \ _/ \ \ /
bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan) (06/12/85)
> If relations through marriage are "in-laws" how about calling > relations through cohabitation "out-laws". I thought "out-laws" was the term for "in-laws" after the divorce. -- Bernie Dougan Perkin-Elmer Southern Development Center 2486 Sand Lake Road Orlando, Florida 32809 (305)850-1040 {decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd}!peora!bd
wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) (06/20/85)
Rob Bernardo asked for terms which could be used to describe relatives of a MOTAS with which one was cohabiting. One which I've always liked, based on the now-mostly-antiquated description of this activity as "living in sin", is "-in-sin". Thus, your mother-in-sin is the mother of your SO, etc. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill