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  • bobagem@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you call your first cousin's child?
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    2 months ago

    So your first common ancestors are your great great grandparents, so that’s third cousin, and they’re a generation older than you, so once removed. Third cousin once removed.

    I believe that the answer is second cousin once removed.

    I believe you need to count the distance to the common ancestor from the older generation of the two people being related.

    I agree that the first common ancestor is OP’s great-great-grandparent. But only OP’s relation’s great-grandparent. So OP’s parent and OP’s relation are second cousins.

    Then the removed takes you down the tree from OP’s parent to OP.

  • bobagem@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is Wiktionary good?
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    3 months ago

    I could be wrong, but my impression is that there is less politics and less bias involved in defining words and and providing pronunciations and etymologies then there is an articles about history and politics and people.

    I especially like Wiktionary from the point of view of exploring cognates between languages and etymologies that cross language boundaries, in a big dictionary that covers many languages all at once.

  • bobagem@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can a COVID test show your level of infectiousness?
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    4 months ago

    Everyone is saying no, and I’m no expert, and I believe that for purposes beyond amusement value, the answer basically is no, but…

    1. The times that I’ve had covid, the strength of the T signal has started weak, gotten strong, and then trailed slowly off over the course of days.

    2. Same for family members.

    3. Same for acquaintances who I’ve seen post day-by-day test photos on social media.

    4. I’ve read that if you are vaccinated and boosted, your antigen response kicks in faster and so more closely parallels your communicability curve. That is to say that unvaccinated people will be communicable before home antigen tests start noticing that you’re responding. But people who have had covid or vaccinations will test positive sooner. And specifically I’ve read that during the incubation stage when you are infected but not very communicable yet the tests may miss you, but on the other hand that’s okayish because you’re not very communicable yet.

    5. Everything that everyone has said about all the variability can be at least partially controlled, if you are using the same test batch, in the same location, at the same time of day, following the same idiosyncratic procedure for each.