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Isn't more of a boomer tradition? Few people really go to bars nowadays, do they? It's maybe clubs for tweens and even that's declining to my knowledge
by 411111111111111 4y ago
Isn't more of a boomer tradition? Few people really go to bars nowadays, do they?
It's maybe clubs for tweens and even that's declining to my knowledge
- Semaphor 4y ago> It's maybe clubs for tweens I’m guessing I’m not the only one who thought that "tweens" meant people in their 20s. As a tip: Don’t say you are into tweens. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2
- 411111111111111 4y agoOh, i thought it was people between teen and early twenties, as it looks like a combination of these words. I misused the word, thanks for pointing that out. Really confusing when you stumble upon such a total misconception about the meaning of a word in your own vocabulary.
- Semaphor 4y agoAs I said, I made exactly the same mistake ;) Teen comes from ten, it only makes sense that tweens comes from twenty. IMO we are right and everyone else is wrong ;)
- noodles_nomore 4y agoAn earlier version of wiktionary had that definition. Apparently it was deleted for lack of citation other than Tolkien which might be an in-universe term. > 1. A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old. Possibly including 30-32. > 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien > At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
- Semaphor 4y agoThat's amazing, thank you. I just hit my wife over the head with it, and she's not amused. But I feel vindicated that Tolkien, 41*, and I all are ahead of everyone else ;)