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To: Steve1999

“teen”

Is he not an adult?

Why not “man”?


35 posted on 07/29/2019 11:54:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes. I have never understood this, except that it is used to frame a perspective. As far as I am concerned, once you reach your 18th birthday, you are no longer a teenager but an adult, “eighTEEN” or nineTEEN” not-withstanding.


51 posted on 07/29/2019 1:33:13 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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