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Since when is a 25-year-old a "kid"?
by dickeytk 8y ago
Since when is a 25-year-old a "kid"?
- jvolkman 8y agoHe's been working on it for 9 years. Do you consider a 16 year old a kid?
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- Broken_Hippo 8y agoNo. A 16 year old is at best, a teenager. Sometimes they can be viewed as young adults. A kid is, generally, younger than 13, though a 13 year old can sometimes be called a "kid". An 8-10 year old fits squarely in the "kid" bracket.
- jvolkman 8y agoWhere are you getting your definition? Merriam-Webster defines it as "a young person" and even gives "kids in high school" as an example usage. Wikipedia includes "young adult" in its definition which includes people from late teens through their twenties (again, according to Wikipedia).
- lupire 8y agoCalling teens "kids" is part of the cultural problem in modern society. We expect too little of teens, and infantilize and demean them, instead respecting their talent and accountability.
- ggambetta 8y agoHe was 16 years old 9 years ago when he started, so I'd say it counts.
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- aczerepinski 8y agoI've been working on my piano technique continuously since I was 6. Can I still be considered a kid three decades later?
- ggambetta 8y agoClearly not. What a weird question.
- code_duck 8y agoI think it really works like, a kid spent 2-3 years assembling a model. Then he turned into an adult who attended Vassar and worked on it for another 6 years.
- hahajk 8y agoYeah, the idiom “this kid” got mistranslated into “a kid” on the link headline.
- dang 8y agoThat's not an idiom, that's a clickbait trick. Our software catches that one and rewrites it sometimes. In this case it got it right.
- guiambros 8y agoHere's the artist 6 years ago [1]. The Flickr has tons more photos from the same year (2013). Assuming the article got his current age right, he was 16 when he started the model, and 19 when he started posting to Flickr (and amazing progress by then; most of the model was ready). So I think it does qualify as a "kid". Maybe a more precise title would be "Artist started building a paper model of a Boeing jet when he was a teenager; took 9 years to finish", but I didn't feel deceived by the current title. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/11782600196/in/album-72157639452020185/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/11782600196/...
- baroffoos 8y agoHow is 'this kid' more clickbait than 'a kid'?
- sml156 8y agoIf were to ask a woman they would tell you that your still a kid till your mid 40's
- oaiey 8y agoSomeone with wisdom or experience :)
- taneq 8y agoWhether you're a kid or not depends on whether you have a stable income and take responsibility for yourself and others. I know 40-year-old kids and 17-year-old men. Edit: Since I've been called out as sexist, I should note that I apply this equally to women. I've likewise met 40-year-old girls and 17-year-old women, and the difference between them is the same: The capability to earn a stable income and take responsibility for themselves and others. Sometimes being part of a partnership means you focus on internal rather than external roles: Supporting the family instead of earning an income. Who does what is then negotiable within the family, and that's OK.
- howiroll 8y agoThat’s sexist and poses a gender-role sterotype on men that they should be providable in order to get respect. We call women, with no stable income but devotes her life to her household, women. We don’t call them girls because ‘they don’t have a stable income’.
- j79 8y agoOddly enough, my brain associated "Kid" and "9 Years" from the title and I assumed a young child built a detailed Boeing paper plane. A "9 year old kid" makes perfect sense to me. I was slightly confused when the video began. (Both by the level of detail a 9 year old kid could achieve and then the age of the "kid"!)