What do you say...

And what would b/g be? Fraternal-sororal? Sororal-fraternal?
Non-identical?

Julie

Greek. ;-)

Sorry, dumb pun on fraternities and sororities collectively being known as
"Greek organizations."

--Helen, whose one-time reaction to the question "How's the Greek life at your
college?" was "How'd you know I was taking Greek?"

Andrea ) wrote:

She asked if they were twins
and then pointed to one of my girls (can't remember which one) and said
"That's
the smart one, isn't it?" I looked at her like she was a complete idiot and
snapped back "They're *both* very smart." and walked off.

Man. That takes the cake. I wish I had been there to point at HER and say
"That's the dumb one, isn't it?"

Not that I would have thought of it in time, of course, or that it would have
done any good, but man, the folks they let out ...

--Helen

Andrea ) wrote:

She asked if they were twins
and then pointed to one of my girls (can't remember which one) and said
"That's
the smart one, isn't it?" I looked at her like she was a complete idiot and
snapped back "They're *both* very smart." and walked off.

Man. That takes the cake. I wish I had been there to point at HER and say
"That's the dumb one, isn't it?"

Not that I would have thought of it in time, of course, or that it would have
done any good, but man, the folks they let out ...

--Helen

Taniwha grrrl wrote:

I don't know, we need a word that just means siblings born
together, maybe another language has one that describes them
better.

We call them one-egged and two-egged twins. I don't think that's any
better, though ;-)

Taniwha grrrl wrote:

I don't know, we need a word that just means siblings born
together, maybe another language has one that describes them
better.

We call them one-egged and two-egged twins. I don't think that's any
better, though ;-)

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:12:06 +0100, "Gerhild S."
wrote:

Taniwha grrrl wrote:

I don't know, we need a word that just means siblings born
together, maybe another language has one that describes them
better.

We call them one-egged and two-egged twins. I don't think that's any
better, though ;-)


The medical terms are monozygotic and dizygotic, which isn't all that
hard to learn to say.

Nick


--
Nick Theodorakis

nicholas_theodorakis [at] urmc [dot] rochester [dot] edu

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:12:06 +0100, "Gerhild S."
wrote:

Taniwha grrrl wrote:

I don't know, we need a word that just means siblings born
together, maybe another language has one that describes them
better.

We call them one-egged and two-egged twins. I don't think that's any
better, though ;-)


The medical terms are monozygotic and dizygotic, which isn't all that
hard to learn to say.

Nick


--
Nick Theodorakis

nicholas_theodorakis [at] urmc [dot] rochester [dot] edu

The medical terms are monozygotic and dizygotic, which isn't all that
hard to learn to say.

Nick

Yeah, but find anyone who actually knows those terms! I never heard them before
reading twins books while pregnant, and I have a pretty large vocabulary ...

--Helen, now trying to find interesting pronunciations -- I think I like
moNOZyGOTic and diZYGotic best (no, that isn't actually how you say them!!!)

The medical terms are monozygotic and dizygotic, which isn't all that
hard to learn to say.

Nick

Yeah, but find anyone who actually knows those terms! I never heard them before
reading twins books while pregnant, and I have a pretty large vocabulary ...

--Helen, now trying to find interesting pronunciations -- I think I like
moNOZyGOTic and diZYGotic best (no, that isn't actually how you say them!!!)

Nick Theodorakis wrote:

The medical terms are monozygotic and dizygotic, which
isn't all that
hard to learn to say.

It's not that hard to write either which is why I was miffed
at a medical specialist using the term non-identical to
label her.


--
Andrea

If I can't be a good example, then I'll just have to be a
horrible warning.