30 ઑગસ્ટ, 2013

"If a father and his son take a widow and her daughter in marriage, so that the son marries the mother and the father the daughter..."

"... say, please, what is the relationship between the sons they will bear?"

ADDED: Based on the comments, nobody got what I found amusing here, undoubtedly because they didn't click through.

14 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Magson કહ્યું...

Aren't those the beginning lines of the song "I'm my own Grandpa?"

Fr. Denis Lemieux કહ્યું...

Complicated.

Leon કહ્યું...

i believe the name of the song you are thinking of is "i'm my own grandpa"

AHL કહ્યું...

Father (F) m. Daughter (D) and Son (S) m. Widow (W).
S+W= Son A (SA)
F+D= Son B (SB)
SA will be F's half-grandson and half-brother.
SB will be S's half-brother and half-grandson.

This is so "Wuthering Heights"....

Sam L. કહ્યું...

The relationship is gonna be weird!

The Godfather કહ્યું...

If the "relationship between the sons" means what is the relationship of the son(s) of one of the marriages to the son(s) of the other marriage, they are in each case uncles and nephews (taking account in each case of both parents).

SukieTawdry કહ્યું...

Jebus, who cares. Stay away from these people.

Gospace કહ્યું...

In my family a set 2 brothers married 2 sisters. Took a while for family tree maker to take it.

And I've wondered if in a state that allows first cousin marriage, if a set of identical twin boys marries a set of identical twin girls, will the kids who are legally first cousins but genetically siblings be allowed to marry?

Abdul Abulbul Amir કહ્યું...


The song "I'm my own grandpa" is all about this situation.

Smilin' Jack કહ્યું...

It's a straightforward exercise in genetics to calculate the coefficient of consanguinity, but I'm too stoned to do it right now. Right now I just think the term "coefficient of consanguinity" sounds really cool.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

The point of this post was to click through and discover what was funny, but these comments help me see that people don't do that.

The question was asked in the year 800.

Michelle Dulak Thomson કહ્યું...

I clicked through immediately, and the thing that amused me was that it was written ca. 800 as part of a set of questions for "sharpening the young" -- i.e., as something like a high school textbook.

If you put a question like that to American high school students now, you'd hear exploding skulls from sea to shining sea.

Molly કહ્યું...

Umm... Men don't bear children.

Krumhorn કહ્યું...

Half the folks in Western Kentucky I grew up with had families like this.

We called each other cousin. Or Cuz.

- Kentucky Krumhorn

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