Bally (bally) wrote, @ 2009-08-04 19:42:00

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Teenage FBI
So I was walking home when a bus drove past me. There was some sort of advert on the back and I had chance to read the first two lines of it before it chugged off into the distance.

"ATTENTION TEENAGERS!

AGED BETWEEN 13 AND 19?"

Er.

	cosmicavatar 2009-08-05 03:48 (link)
	Well, yeah. *sigh* (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyril 2009-08-05 09:28 (link)
	"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." - George Orwell (Reply to this) (Thread)

cassylee 2009-08-05 11:00 (link)

Oy. Although, this does bring up something that I periodically wonder about, but am too lazy to investigate. Do other languages have a phrase analaguous to 'teenagers' that covers the same age range? I ask because I know that in other languages, the area in the tens-range that I find similar to our 'teens' don't cover the same numbers. For example, in Spanish numbers 11-15 all have unique words & it's not until 16 (dieciséis) where the word basically becomes10 + x. Since I know you have a hell of a lot more fluency in French than I have in any other language, I turn to you for answers :-). (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dropedge 2009-08-15 15:39 (link)
	I don't know why, but I tend to think of teenagers as sort of topping out at 18. I don't know why, except that that's the age one becomes a legal adult here. Is this perhaps an American thing? (Reply to this) (Thread)