A family referential scheme which encodes favoritism chains: if you like your son the best, followed by your wife, followed by your father, you'll refer to them, respectively, as "my son", "my son's mother", "my son's mother's father-in-law", etc.
Replying to @ctrlcreep
Makes sense in efficiency terms, if you assume you talk more about the people you like than the people you don't. But that is probably not the case.
11:34 AM - 28 May 2018
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