Re: Words for family groups
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 23, 1999, 21:19 |
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On Sat, 22 May 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> FFlores wrote:
> > BTW how do you say "son or daughter" in a more neutral way
> > in English? Offspring? <ugh!>
>
> Child. We just live with the ambiguity of "young person" and
> "offspring" (indeed, you can speak of "adult children")
In Dutch, too ("kind"). And in Valdyan, _nute_ means "a person under
about 3" as well as "offspring".
Irina
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