Why are elderly people often called "old people" but children are never called "new people"?
2007-06-01 12:25:13 · 20 answers · asked by krazykat 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
hmmm.......that's a really good question.
I guess the closest we come is calling them "youngsters"
2007-06-01 12:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because in that instance the opposite word for old would be young....and I am sure you've been told that you are one before. English is a very complex language!
2007-06-01 20:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Instantkarma♥♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While standing in line at the market last night, behind me was a mom & her 4 year old daughter who was totally fussing, and as she started to drop to the ground she told her mom rather angerily: "My feet hurt!"...
and without batting an eye her mom said: "Well of course they do, you're still breaking them in!"....
2007-06-01 19:32:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are called young people. Young is the opposite of old in that situaton.
2007-06-01 19:28:22 · answer #4 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children are called "young" people....
2007-06-01 19:27:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
In the giver, they call babies "the new children"
2007-06-01 19:28:14 · answer #6 · answered by Blue Rain 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
who you callin "old", you young whipper snapper, you, i got a good mind to put you over my knee and give you the biggest spankin you ever had.
2007-06-01 19:33:48 · answer #7 · answered by otsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh... good one... Hmm. I do not know why... we should start calling them new people!
2007-06-01 19:28:58 · answer #8 · answered by sherbert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the world is cruel.
2007-06-01 19:27:51 · answer #9 · answered by thexairwaves 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never thought of it that way before.
2007-06-01 19:27:16 · answer #10 · answered by Macey 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋