Family Line

Refers to the string of LBs,..., LBⁿs, and so on that can be traced back to one individual person, similar to a family tree. The numbering style for determining the relation of someone to someone else used in Iota Phi is dependent on superscripts:

• BB: your big bro (or Big)

• BB²: your big bro's big bro (or Square)

• BB³: your big bro's big bro's big bro (or Cube)

Etc...

Likewise,

• LB: your lil bro (or Little)

• LB²: your lil bro's lil bro (or Little Square)

• LB³: your lil bro's lil bro's lil bro (or Little Cube)

And so on... Because a family line will continue to build as long as you have active members, some family lines can be fairly large (see Minh's line).

Other chapters may use a different system of determining relations. One example is as follows:

• Big: your big bro

• Grand big: your big bro's big bro

• Great grand big: your big bro's big bro's big bro

• Great great grand big: your big bro's big bro's big bro's big bro

Some people use other names for relations... Some names fill voids that should be filled, and some just cause more confusion to the relations...

• Super Big Bro: too many overlaps or too much confusion to tell.

And thus it continues...