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Originally Posted by KarTek
Sorry for your family's loss. It sounds like an interesting ceremony.
I have a question out of curioity and due to my limited understanding of the language: Why would your daughter refer to the Grandfather as "ojiichan" rather than "ojiisan"?
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Ojiisan is how you would refer to another persons grandfather.
All grandchildren, even adult grandchildren use the "chan" suffix.
So when I am talking to my wife's mother in front of our kids, she is their grandmother, so we all call her Obaachan. Using the suffix "san" instead of "chan" would make it too impersonal.
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