Best constant in all of iOS!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelcontactrelationyoungercousinmotherssiblingssonorfatherssistersson

Part of the contact management framework. The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger son or father’s sister’s younger son.

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guycls@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 2y

The constant is

CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsSonOrFathersSistersSon

to save a click.

DoctorNope@lemmy.one · 31 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What about the label for my father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate?

TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Depends on if your Schwartz is as big as mine. And how you use it

DmMacniel@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y

Which would surmount to absolutely nothing?

Deebster@programming.dev · 28 pts · 2y (6 replies)

CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsSonOrFathersSistersSon

The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger son or father’s sister’s younger son.

I thought it was just a male cousin, but it doesn't include a cousin who's your uncle's son. Which culture needs this?

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl · 17 pts · 2y
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Avalokitesha@programming.dev · 12 pts · 2y

I think Chinese and Korean culture share this concept, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were more Asian languages who did. Since a daughter joins her husband's family upon marriage, their children are considered belonging to the other family. I recently learner that apparently there's a saying in Korean that daughters always leave things at their mother's house when they get married so they have a reason to come back despite having left the family.

fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

China, at least. Lots of distinction between mother side and father side. Grandma can be 老老 laolao (mother's mother) or 奶奶 nainai (father's mother), for example.

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

*姥姥

fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Thanks for correcting. Pleco confirmed the one I wrote, but this is the one I learnt and actually wanted to write!

Kache@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

It refers to a male cousin that is NOT in the same paternal line, so maybe not too uncommon?

fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That has to be because in Chinese there is a single word for it, like for so many other relative nouns.

... I think I found it : 老表 (laobiao) Defined as "male cousin (on the maternal side or on the paternal aunt's side)"

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 2y

I think this is just 表弟 (younger male cousin). 老表 is too casual to be used as a tag in phone book.

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

B0rax@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y

I still don’t understand why these are not linked to the other contacts. Why can’t I jump to the brother of a contact by tapping the name?

superfes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Makes me think of the GTK...

otter@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Why is there an "or" in there, how does that help?

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

Yea the part I found weird was that it went "mother's sibling" but also "father's sister", rather than "X's sibling" or "X's sister"