English speakers seem to feel that children graduate from childhood to the status of "teenager" when they reach 13 years old, mostly because our language adds the suffix \n"-teen" to our numbers at that point.\n\nSo, do cultures with different languages and different numbering structures, like Spanish and Japanese, still consider 13 to be the magic number?  What is the equivalent of "teenager" in other languages and at what age does it begin?
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I think the world has been influenced by America so much that in many cases, whatever age categories they had before may have changed somewhat. In French, regardless of how much the french have tried to stop the influx of English words, they refer to "le teenagers." In Middle East cultures, 12 is considered the "coming of age" (think Jewish Bar/Bat mitzvah). \n\nActually half the languages of the world are Indo-European, descended from some long lost language and have similiar cardinal numbers. This would include most of the European languages, Iranian, the languages of India, etc. In those languages, "13" is the number where the numbers all start to  be based on numbers smaller than itself. I don't know if they all consider that number to be the coming of age, but 12 or 13 does seem to be the starting point of adolescence for most cultures.
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you seem to only have trouble figuring out how to take in parameters. if you take some time to read from the link below perhaps it would become clearer to you\n\nyou can work out your logic like this\n\nsomeone is a teenager if:\n  age is greater or equal to 13\n   AND\n  age is less than or equal to 19\n\nsame as:\n  age >= 13 AND age <= 19\n\nhow to write age >= 13 in scheme?\n(>= age 13)\n\nhow to write age <= 19 in scheme?\n(<= age 19)\n\nand how do you AND these results together?\n(and (>= age 13) (<= age 19))\n\nso this tells you age IS a teenager.\n\nAll the operators we've used thus far {and, >=, <=} are binary operators. this means that they each take two parameters. go ahead, look back until this makes sense.\n\nto see if it is NOT a teenager, then we use the not operator. you've tried to use it already, but you passed to it two parameters. this is incorrect because 'not' is a unary operator, not binary. so you only pass it one argument:\n\n(not (and (>= age 13) (<= age 19)) )\n\nand that's your logic.
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I think It has something to do with the Significance of the the number twelve to romans. \n12 months\n12 titans\n12 apostles\nso the numbers 1- 12 are unique sounding although we use a base 10 arabic system for the numerals\nthirteen and fifteen are simply changed for ease of use, but they do use the 'teen' system. \nI think they are changed because the 'e' sound in three is too similar to the 't' in teen, and the transition from 'v' to t in fiveteen would be foriegn sounding. \nLike why we pronounce the suffix -ed differently for words ending with different sounds. Eg. worked, stopped, 'ed' is pronounced 't'. milled,jelled 'ed' is pronounced 'd' and sometimed 'ed' is pronounce 'ed' shredded, etc. \n\nSo the numbers up to twelve are unique, but only in roman based counting systems.\n\nJessom made a good point though.\nWhy don't the teens follow other number conventions like twenty, thirty, forty,
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People would like to think 16.  It's younger than that, before mom and dad realize it's happening, anyway.\n13-14 would be average.
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I've seen answerers who have claimed to be as young as eight, and as old as 106.  We have no way of knowing what anyone's true age is.  I'm in my twenties - for real.
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ok well heres what i see. private schools teach second language early on like in Middle school. and most always it is spanish. however, in public schools i believe they dont teach it until highschool. and by then you can choose what language to take. it doesnt have any negative effect. only positive. helps in future a lot for communications. especially if you live in California haha
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1 and 2 are the most important.  Obviously the two most outdated would be 18 and 21, since they cancel each other out.  But besides those, 16 and 17 are probably ones we could do without.
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ahh definitely seventeen. J-14 is horrible, but teen people is good too. I love seventeen though cuz it has so many different elements too it, i just find it most entertaining
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In the process of working on the manuscript for my forthcoming picture book, The Happiest Tree, about a clumsy child who learns yoga, I had to answer a question from my editor--would the young girl in the story call her parents "Mom" and "Dad" or would she use more traditional terms in an Indian language?  After some thought, I decided that for this story, Mom and Dad would work fine.  I didn't want to ground this family in any particular region of India, and a more traditional name would surely do that.  Many children, I rationalized, do use the American terms. \nThen I was assailed by doubt. I no longer have a small child. What if there had been some vast sociological change in the 17 years since I joined the "new parent" ranks? I decided I'd better do some research.  So I asked the members of the Sawnet listserv, "If you have little kids, or know people who do, what are these kids calling their parents?" \n\nI received 35 replies (5 on the listserv, and the rest backchannel). Here is the list of terms they contained: Amma/Appa, Ma/Dad, Amma/Dad, Mommy/Daddy, Mom/Dad, Mama/Papa, Mamma/Papa, Mummy/Papa, Ammi/Abba, Mama/Daddy, Mummy/Daddy, Mama/Dada, Amma/Dada, Mama/Baba, Mummy/Baba, Ammi/Papa, Aai/Baba, Amma/Nanna. \n\nBut many of the women who responded also wrote about the variability in the way their children used these terms, and how early on (e.g., early pre-school years) the children began to make decisions about the useability of terms for their parents at home (i.e. while speaking to their parents) and at school or with non-Indian friends (i.e. while talking about their parents).  Here are some examples: \n\nPapa/Mamma when speaking to parents, Daddy/Mommy when speaking to others \nAmma/Mommy interchangeably  \nDaddy when speaking to father, Appa while speaking to others (this was the reverse of the more commonly cited switches) \nMore than one woman wrote about children using Indian-language terms till preschool, but Mommy and Daddy after that
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With ThirTEEN you are entering the teenage stage of your life. You would be leaving childhook behind.They say that before the 13th Birthday whatever you do is forgotten and forgiven since you are innocent. With the TEENs however, this overlooking is no more there. You are supposed to be on the way to maturity and able to know the precise implications of your actions and their likely effect and you are supposed to guard your movements accordingly; Or else you are help responsible.\n\nWhen you enter the 13th year remember this and try to act in a more mature way.By all means celebrate the occasion but let the enjoyment be tempered with temperance and awareness.   You are a young man/woman now and try to act like one.
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OK, CREATIVE, here's how it works:\n\nFirst let's think of what we mean by writing a number as follows:  "4321". \n\nWe mean the number is [(4X1000) + (3x100) + (2X10) + 1X1)]. \n\nIn other words, the number is the sum of four thousands, three hundreds, two tens, and one ones.\n\nWe'll call your word sequence of directions the "sequence", for short. What I intend to do is derive the number 1755 or 1756, as appropriate, because that is the key to how the sequence works. The multiplication that the sequence calls out just serves to positions numbers in the columns so that the last three digits of the answer become, in order, the chocolate number, the first age digit, and the second age digit.\n\nAlso To help simplify things, let's name the numbers 1755 & 1756, the "adjuster", because they "adjust" the sequence so that when we subtact our birth year, we arrive at the desired three-digit answer!\n\nNow let's write the sequence of steps you outlined as an equation, where n = the number of times we eat chocolate, and 19xy represents the year of birth (YOB).\n\n(By the way, the sequence doesn't work if you were born before 1901 or after 1999, but we when finish here, you'll have the tools to fix it to work for either the 19th or 21st centuries! YEAH!) :-)\n\nSo here's the sequence written as an equation:\n\n\n{[100(n) + 250] + 1756} - 19xy = nTO\n\nWhere we've assigned "T" as in "T"ens column, as the first digit in the age, and "O" as in "O"nes column, as the second digit. So the answer to the equation is properly "nTO".\n  \ndouble check the equation by going back and reading what the sequence spells-out.\n\nNotice that whatever (n) is, the first term of the equation, 100(n), will always create, in the hundreds (third) column, the number we chose for (n)!!!\n\nAHAW! - we've already cracked part of the trick!  We know we have to choose our "adjuster" such that it cancels-out any other numbers appearing in the hundreds column! The "n" gets preserved because its the first digit of the answer!\n\nSimple - eh?\n\nFor now, lets assign the adjuster the value ABCD, where the alphabet letters represent the numbers we need to derive. \n\nUsing our terminology and chain, we can re-write the equation as a column of numbers to be added and subtracted as follows:\n   \n             0n00\n             0250\n             ABCD \n             19xy(-)\n            ______\n             0nTO               \n \nNote: The lead zero's in rows one, two, and the answer row are put there to try and line-up the columns correctly when they appear on the yahoo! answer site, which otherwise moves them out of position because it "left justifies" all columns. By the same token, normally the minus sign for the "19xy", which is to be subtracted, would appear in front, instead of behind, but in so doing  the program mis-aligns the columns. Also note that the alphabet letters do not line-up accurately with the numbers. Readers will have to mentally correct for these mis-alignments.  Sorry!\n\n\nHang on!  We're almost there!  The hard part's done, it's all down  hill from here!  :-)\n\nNow let's plug in to the columns the numbers for an easy case, say a ten-year old born in 1996, then work backwords and see what numbers result for the "ABCD".\n\nplugging in age 10, YOB of 1996, then the desired answer is n10. Go back and put in the answer line.\n\n Then see how the columns look. we have:\n    For the ones column,        D-6=0,      so D=6\n    For the tens column,       5+C-9=1,     so C=5          \n    For the hundreds column,  n+2+B-9=n     so B=7\n    For the thousands column,    A-1=0      so A=1\n\nSo  ABCD = 1756  QED  (Quid Erat Demenstradum - what we wanted to demonstrate, as the Romans used to say!)\n\nNow you can have some fun and derive the "1755" adju
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I studied this language when I was just 15 because of my mother's orders and its easy actually. Its like learning english minus the correct grammar. \n\nBut the thing is you have to practice or use it frequently or else you will be forgetting it. But don't worry, handouts are also provided. \n\nHave fun.
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That's just the way it is. Hence the word... thir-TEEN. Being a teenager is a big part of life. You may feel that age is just a number. You might not feel any different now, but things do change... It's also the next step into becoming an adult.\nBe happy, and remember not everyone on earth makes it to that age. =)
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The "adult" age of 18 is the age that most governments adopted to ensure that there would be an age to determine a person's maturity and readiness for adulthood. Now scientists are finding that the average age of a person's peak maturity is 23. \n\nThe medicine bottle refers to those who have gone through puberty. Physically, a person becomes and adult after puberty and their hormonal balance is beginning to develop. Many medicines can conflict with hormonal levels in a person's body which cause negative side effects.
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Mmmm.... supper..... \n\n\nwouldn't that be sweet 17?   Oh yea, 17's not that sweet....   You don't really get anything good until 18 - even that's not so hot.  maybe they'll just skip to 21 where the REAL fun begins. \n\nCheers!
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10+ - Denarian\n20+ - Vicenarian\n30+ - Tricenarian\n40+ - Quadragenarian\n50+ - Quinquagenarian \n60+ -Sexagenarians.\n70+ - Septuagenarian\n80+ - Octogenarian\n90+ - Nonagenarian\n100+ - Centenarian\n\n\nThese nouns are based on the Latin root words for ten, twenty, thirty, forty and so forth.\n\nSomeone over 110 is referred to as a Supercentenarian and there is no upper limit for this noun. The term was coined in 1991.
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there are different reasons. 3 is a very powerful number in a lot of cultures. also, in fairy tales they like to isolate people, things, etc. having thins come in 3s allow them to create a patten, and then have the third person or thing break this pattern.