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[jethrien]

Brought on by a book I'm reading:

Say your mother has two children by two different fathers, you and your half-brother X. (Your father is A, your half-brother's father is B.) And your half-brother's father has two children by two different mothers, X and his half-sister Y. (You and your half-brother's mother is C, your half-brother's half-sister's father is B and mother is D.) And no one was married to anyone listed. What is Y to you? I mean, biologically, nothing, I suppose. And legally, nothing either, I think. But X is brother to both you and Y. What would you call that?

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[feiran.livejournal.com]

I have two of these. They're my brother and (late) sister. If I need to get technical or clarify to someone who matters, I call them my half-brother's half-brother and half-sister, or just my brother's brother and brother's sister, assuming people will make the appropriate leap.