How do you say that Colonel Aureliano's son is the second cousin of Leo Aureliano in One Hundred Years of Solitude? Aren't they uncles?

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Al Cattiau is an illegitimate child. He was brought home and grew up with Amaranda. In other words, he and his father, eldest brother Jose al Cattiau, and his uncle became peers, and became the second generation in Macondo's public cognition, although in fact the blood relationship belongs to the third generation.

The secret line is that Ursula never received Petra Ternella, so Al Cattiau didn't know that Petra was his real mother and wanted to tell her gnome male-". Mei Mei asked Petra to tell her fortune, not knowing that this was her great-grandmother. This "mistake" is also reflected in the fact that Al Cattiau didn't know his life experience before his death and thought he was the second generation, so when he named the next generation, that is, the fourth generation, he put their relationship with their ancestors one generation ahead of schedule. Because the first generation of couples deliberately concealed Al Cattiau's life experience, Brother Da Diao and his party thought their seniority was one generation ahead of schedule, but in fact their blood relationship should be one generation lower. Of course, the last family secret will have to wait until the sixth generation of Aureliano cracked the scroll.

The mistake you mentioned here is not a translation mistake, but the author's misunderstanding of the family generation from the perspective of the descendants of Big Brother.