[Lexicog] Mother-in-law

[Chaz and Helga Mortensen]

Tag, Fritz!

In Colombia a common mother-in-law joke was "Suegra, vaya con Dios-- yo 
voy con su hija!" (Mother-in-law, go with God-- I'm going with your 
daughter!"

I wanted to mention to Michael that I had not heard "madre politica" 
before, but maybe that's because I've never been to Shpain.

-Chaz

On Oct 26, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Fritz Goerling wrote:

>
> Verry interrestinck! said with a strong German accent. At least the 
> Spaniards do not seem to use a euphemism like “belle-mère” (literally: 
> beautiful mother) like the French. Why don’t we – instead of trying to 
> define “mother-in-law” in a watertight universal definition – swap a 
> few mother-in-law jokes on this list?
>  
> Fritz (alias Fede)
>  
>  
> Michael Nicholas wrote:
>  
> By the way, mother - in  -law in Spanish is madre política. The mind 
> boggles.
>  
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