Yeah, but if I understand correctly ChristianKI's language has special provision for things like "my boss's boss" and "my beloved's beloved" but not for "my boss's husband" and "my beloved's friends". You pick a particular relationship and then you have efficient ways of describing complicated paths through the graph it defines, but there isn't special machinery for combining multiple relationships.
I haven't presented here a way to combine multiple relationships but the language certainly should have mechanisms to handle them. I'm not sure whether it makes sense to have all in one long word or not, but when it comes to language design, it's worth thinking about how those cases get handled.
When it comes to kinship relationships it's worth noting that not every language has a word for "brother". Pitjantjatjara for example has a no word for brother but one "younger sibling".
A language that allows both of those concepts to be expressed is more culturally neutral and doesn't force the speaker into categorising his relationships in the way our culture does.
I'm working on a conlang (constructed language) and would like some input from the Less Wrong community. One of the goals is to investigate the old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis regarding language affecting cognition. Does anyone here have any ideas regarding linguistic mechanisms that would encourage more rational thinking, apart from those that are present in the oft-discussed conlangs e-prime, loglan, and its offshoot lojban? Or perhaps mechanisms that are used in one of those conlangs, but might be buried too deeply for a person such as myself, who only has superficial knowledge about them, to have recognized? Any input is welcomed, from other conlangs to crazy ideas.