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(DIR) Post #AjUYnrzhDyx19ajwNE by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T16:18:36Z
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Moderately interesting: I just noticed there's no single word in English that refers to baby non-human animals as a category. Do other languages have one?
(DIR) Post #AjUYuvFlVOSjHycRai by proedie@mastodon.green
2024-07-01T16:19:50Z
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@ZachWeinersmith You mean like younglings?
(DIR) Post #AjUZ5rBywcI9sa3zpA by BinaryUnit@mastodon.online
2024-07-01T16:21:51Z
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@ZachWeinersmith couldn't it be cub? https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cub
(DIR) Post #AjUZ71S6HdxxzQ9swa by rrb@allthingstech.social
2024-07-01T16:22:02Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I think German "Nachkommen" would work. Why not descendents or progeny? I realize that this includes humans, but WTF we are animals, just less adorable.
(DIR) Post #AjUZ7Ai1rn3UhQgEWO by AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host
2024-07-01T16:21:55Z
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@ZachWeinersmith 'Young' is often used as a generic. 'The wildebeest and their young,' etc.Or is that not what you are looking for?
(DIR) Post #AjUZMx9U2W7vHn2y5w by dynode@mas.to
2024-07-01T16:24:56Z
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@ZachWeinersmithJuveniles, neonates?There are definitely words that are at least suitable...
(DIR) Post #AjUZRs8e6hgNBW06dM by fe06@astrodon.social
2024-07-01T16:25:49Z
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@ZachWeinersmith "filhote" in Brazilian Portuguese.
(DIR) Post #AjUa1dxKJaWbchlNvU by mistersql@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T16:32:18Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Maybe Детёныш. Maybe humans when the conventions where being set understood that humans are animals and it would be an unuseful distinction.
(DIR) Post #AjUa3PJPjNxUmlw3zE by DrorBedrack@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T16:32:36Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I think that's a good thing. Makes the language richer.
(DIR) Post #AjUa7saKpx5AjSyzJo by mdione@en.osm.town
2024-07-01T16:33:24Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Spanish has 'crías', but it's not necessarily referring to babies specifically. It also has 'cachorro', which could be translated to 'cub'. In particular, to me, 'baby' maps to a 'lactante', a milk drinking (human) baby, but it's more technical than colloquial. For birds we have 'pichón', which would map to birds that can't feed themselves, still in the nest, although after watching documentaries I know of birds that stay way after they can leave the nest but not flight yet.
(DIR) Post #AjUaKy21ti7LODB3a4 by jonoleth@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T16:35:48Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Swedish has "unge", which means an animal child. It's often colloquially used for human children too though
(DIR) Post #AjUbMYy89SrOBwg7Qe by lobsterofrevenge@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T16:47:17Z
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@ZachWeinersmith You can refer to any animal's (or at least vertebrate's) young as its "young". But how to refer to very young young? I suggest "younger young". Insects and such I have no idea.
(DIR) Post #AjUceHazaEObTarw7k by juandesant@astrodon.social
2024-07-01T17:01:41Z
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@ZachWeinersmith cachorros in Spanish, applied to mammals. Pollos/pollitos (chicks) applied to birds (an eagle chick, for instance). Not sure about other parts of the animal kingdom.
(DIR) Post #AjUcoBAILZruQb6Hku by number137@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T17:03:26Z
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@ZachWeinersmith spawn- fits everything‘s and everyone’s young, children and processes
(DIR) Post #AjUdsrl61jelds733o by oblomov@sociale.network
2024-07-01T17:15:25Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Italian has cucciolo (koo-tchee-ohlo), stress on the first syllable
(DIR) Post #AjUflg9Gzi47W17cBc by HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T17:36:38Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Offspring? Young? Spawn?
(DIR) Post #AjUwVmX5Bnsvu1GQz2 by HeroDad@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T20:44:13Z
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@ZachWeinersmith appetizers?
(DIR) Post #AjUzXgegJQBo7EQ0Fk by Sqlgene@techhub.social
2024-07-01T21:18:10Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Spawn? Offspring?
(DIR) Post #AjV2qtQ3NbGx4EQTLc by eichin@mastodon.mit.edu
2024-07-01T21:55:18Z
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@ZachWeinersmithAfter failing to remember "cygnet" and using "swanling", some friends and I are trying to get "lings" to catch on, but I thought english was the weird one for not already having it...
(DIR) Post #AjVySlamch8RBSe2s4 by ALoiteringFlaneur@zirk.us
2024-07-02T08:40:50Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Like los animalitos in Spanish? Those definitions exist in Slavic languages. Звірятко in Ukrainian, звераня in Belarusian or зверёнок in russian, for example.