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Sentence #1655741

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 Wuzzy Wuzzy January 13, 2015 January 13, 2015 at 3:19:10 PM UTC link Permalink

Careful! This means the speaker is *exactly* 18 years old, surely this was not meant by the English sentence“I am eighteen years old.”.
But usually, when someone says to be X years old in English, rarely the exact age is meant nor is it rounded to the nearest whole number. Actually what is meant is how much time one's birthday has happened so far.
So “I am 18 years old.” actually means “It now happened 18 times that the Earth revolved around the Sun after I have been born.”.

gleki gleki January 13, 2015 January 13, 2015 at 4:23:04 PM UTC link Permalink

pei nauku

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #1655739.

tu'a mi nanca li ...

added by gleki, June 30, 2012
➜ #1655739

linked by gleki, June 30, 2012
➜ #1655739

unlinked by gleki, January 11, 2014
tu'a mi nanca li 18

edited by gleki, January 11, 2014
➜ #1817770

linked by gleki, January 11, 2014
tu'a mi nanca li 18 pi xo'e

edited by gleki, January 13, 2015
➜ #1817770

unlinked by Horus, January 20, 2015
➜ #282225I am eighteen years old.

linked by Horus, January 20, 2015