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Christine Christie Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Offspring/young

In English, and even if in a humourous way, do people ever refer to their children as 'offspring' or 'young', such as:


"My offspring"


or


"My young"


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THANK YOU.

  

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Christine Christie in a humourous humorous way 'humourous' is nonstandard, including in Britain. I suppose 'my offspring' might be used humorously, but I can't say I feel the same about 'my young', which I don't think is used at all. 'young' for offspring seems to apply only to animals.

— CalifJim

  • Christine Christie in a humourous humorous way 'humourous' is nonstandard, including in Britain.
  • I suppose 'my offspring' might be used humorously, but I can't say I feel the same about 'my young', which I don't think is used at all.
  • 'young' for offspring seems to apply only to animals.
  • CJ
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Christine Christiein a humourous humorous way

'humourous' is nonstandard, including in Britain.

I suppose 'my offspring' might be used humorously, but I can't say I feel the same about 'my young', which I don't think is used at all. 'young' for offspring seems to apply only to animals.

CJ

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Only if they consider their children to be puppies, kittens or some other kind of animal.

I've heard young'uns used in rural dialects. Here are some quotes in eye dialect.

And after supper, the younguns of the neighborhood would play outside until dark.

I mean Papa Day's chillen and dere younguns, when dey comes to see me.

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