Brother Sister

[peezey 0]

Well, considering the poster in question who uses this phrase is not Moroccan, nor muslim, I can't for the life of me understand his insistence on using it all over VJ. Again, contrived familiarity comes off as quite condescending in my opinion.

[doodlebug 3]

why don't you ask him/her directly?

[~Jess~ 0]

in lebanon, Geo always would refer to men that were nice as ...the word for brother in Lebaense...i dunno how to spell it......and for woman that were close to the family he would always say to her as the word for sister in lebanese...again cant spell it.

[deemabrouk 0]

Nuns are called sisters.........

[asdffdas 0]

In Hawaii basically anyone who is about twenty years older than you is automatically referred to as auntie or uncle. It's kind of nice and makes the whole place seem like a large extended family (Which it often is, actually). Also, with my brother being adopted and not looking anything like me (He's Sri Lankan by birth), we've often had difficulty getting people to believe that we really are brothers and not just close friends who call each other brother.

Edited June 11, 2007 by isaacwarsh