What are the age ranges for various generic age descriptors, eg, "ancient" "elderly" "old" "young"?
What are the age ranges for various generic age descriptors, eg, "ancient" "elderly" "old" "young"?
Obviously teenager is 13-19.
"Young adult" would start at 20, but where's the cutoff at the upper end? Similarly, what's the range for "adult", "old", "elderly", " ancient"?
If someone asks for responses from "old men", how do I know if it applies to me?
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I heard a teenager describing a 40 year old as "elderly". Context matters.
Yup. I substitute teach at a middle school and a couple years ago, I heard a 12yo say 40 would be a good age to die because you'd pretty much done everything you could by then... I'd just turned 40 a few weeks earlier.
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