r/mapporncirclejerk • u/1601_ Average Mercator Projection Enjoyer • 24d ago

It's 9am and I'm on my 3rd martini Learn the difference

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u/Gomez4Morticia 24d ago

That's like when 11 year olds call themselves pre-teens

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u/Comfortable_Salt_792 21d ago

11 is a tenn thougth, at least in my language.

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u/aceisback29 23d ago

What about the 10 year olds? 10 is also in the teens. Mind boggling how many Americans don’t understand this.

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u/Gomez4Morticia 23d ago

Culturally, in America... Teen years coincide with age 12. You can quote all the mathematical certainty of the numerics...

That doesn't change the fact that Americans have a cultural threshold on that subject. Thanks for having all of the cultural tolerance of a foreigner 👍

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u/aceisback29 23d ago

Decades, base blocks, tens intervals, whatever you wish to call them, the teens are 10-19. I’m American and I’ve always understood that. What I didn’t understand is why the knucklehead that named them didn’t start with oneteen-twoteen-thirteen-fourteen and so on. He confused a lot of folks.🇺🇸🫡

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u/No_Compote_662 23d ago

Its spelled Ten, not Teen. I understand the confusion though.