Sunday Sentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
That there is a word for this relationship tells you everything you need to know about our culture.
Source: The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer.
Love the title of the source. Would also love to know what the “relationship” that there is a word for might be.
I was trying to stick to those rules of “out of context and without commentary,” but since you asked….The encyclopedia isn’t online, but here’s a clue: https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/machatunim-co-in-laws-english-needs-a-word-for-the-relationship-between-parents-and-in-laws.html.