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# teenager connotates eleven, twelve or twenty are not young generation. Mere age has nothing to do with important and social changes occuring during adolecence. |
# teenager connotates eleven, twelve or twenty are not young generation. Mere age has nothing to do with important and social changes occuring during adolecence. |
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-- [[User:TakuyaMurata|Taku]] 03:29 21 May 2003 (UTC) |
-- [[User:TakuyaMurata|Taku]] 03:29 21 May 2003 (UTC) |
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If the two concepts are different, address the difference in the articles. |
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#Teenager is a new word, but it is ''completely'' accurate (it's defined numerically!) and is not considered an informal usage. |
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#Wikipedia is written in English. |
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#''teenager'' and ''young generation'' are not identical concepts. -- [[User:Someone else|Someone else]] 03:36 21 May 2003 (UTC) |
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Isn't teenager a kind of informal term? isn't adolescent more appreciate as the title o encyclopedia article? -- Taku 00:51 19 May 2003 (UTC)
Does anyone have access to an Oxford English Dictionary and would care to look this word up? From what I undertand, it's a very recent coinage. -- Zoe
- Amusingly, the OED entry for teenage refers one to teen2, where it is defined as brushwood for fences and hedges. Nearby is the sadly obsolete word teenful, defined as "causing trouble or sorrow; vexatious, troublesome, painful, grievous, distressing." Teenage also doesn't make it into the OED Supplement, it may make it into the most recent edition, which I don't have. Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary gives the date 1921 for the coinage. -- Someone else 03:18 19 May 2003 (UTC)
I want to rename the article to adolescence because
- teenager seems a new, inaccurate informal word
- no all other language has a word corresponding to teenager
- teenager connotates eleven, twelve or twenty are not young generation. Mere age has nothing to do with important and social changes occuring during adolecence.
-- Taku 03:29 21 May 2003 (UTC)
If the two concepts are different, address the difference in the articles.
- Teenager is a new word, but it is completely accurate (it's defined numerically!) and is not considered an informal usage.
- Wikipedia is written in English.
- teenager and young generation are not identical concepts. -- Someone else 03:36 21 May 2003 (UTC)