"Yes, because if the scene had been executed effectively, it wouldn't have come off as comedic. I admit that the parts you mentioned are pretty good, but as soon as they start mourning the loss of "younglings", I can't help but bust a gut every single time. The most ridiculous word in the world, and every time I heard Ewan McGregor say it, it sounds like he's having trouble spewing out that piece of dialogue."

Probably since there's already a perfectly serviceable word for the characters being described, that is, "children." There was no need to invent a neologism to communicate a universally-understood notion. The -ling suffix was also an odd choice. If the word was used only by Yoda, that'd be okay, he's a 900-year-old alien who never quite mastered English. But hearing it from Obi-wan and Padme is kind of strange.

I didn't feel for the poor dead younglings, but not for linguistic reasons. The PT turned me off on the Jedi so much I felt the purge was more of a mild overreaction than the holocaust I'd imagined. You know how you read about a government shooting or crackdown on some troublesome group, and you think, "Well, obviously their civil rights were violated, but they were kind of asking for it?" Yeah, that's the Jedi.