We learn more about this society: there aren’t complex family relationships (for instance, the world “uncle” apparently isn’t a part of the collective vocabulary). This suggests that family itself isn’t very important to this society: it’s been whittled down to its simplest form of mother, father, and child. Clearly, the society isn’t very technologically advanced, since dying in childbirth is common. Ages are calculated very crudely, based on the syllables in one’s name: the more syllables, the older one is. (These ages seem to correspond roughly to young children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly.