What is a First Cousin, Twice Removed?
Finally I get Professor Doughty's joke.. -_-" ...that's after probably one year? He kept using it when we had assignments to do. He would warn us against getting answers from other students in UK
Well.. normally I would just ignore this sort of things. But finally after so long, I succumbed my ignorance to curiosity after the phrase was played on TV! And once again, I didn't get the joke!! So yeah... I don't want to murder and mutilate another cat over and over again till it was sorry it has 9 lives! Ahem.. I didn't really kill a cat... just curiosity kills a cat... so yeah... no more being curious.
Anyway, this useful site helped me...
When the word "removed" is used to describe a relationship, it indicates that the two people are from different generations. You and your first cousins are in the same generation (two generations younger than your grandparents), so the word "removed" is not used to describe your relationship.
The words "once removed" mean that there is a difference of one generation. For example, your mother's first cousin is your first cousin, once removed. This is because your mother's first cousin is one generation younger than your grandparents and you are two generations younger than your grandparents. This one-generation difference equals "once removed."
Twice removed means that there is a two-generation difference. You are two generations younger than a first cousin of your grandmother, so you and your grandmother's first cousin are first cousins, twice removed.
There you go! No more being blur during a joke about cousins first or twice removed! Hmm... I wonder how is that funny in the first place.. Gotta hear the joke again.
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