Timeline for Is there a word for not taking the specific date into account when calculating an age?
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| May 29, 2014 at 13:57 | comment | added | Marthaª | My mother does this too: if she's being somewhat precise, she'll say "he's turning 40" or "he will be 40", but 9 times out of 10, she gets sloppy and just says "he's 40", even though it's February and his birthday is in November. | |
| May 29, 2014 at 13:25 | comment | added | Neil W | This is why people celebrated the turn of the millennium one year early. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 8:03 | comment | added | Jeffrey Kemp | @oerkelens yes - and I believe this same counting is used in the Jewish culture as well - e.g. He was raised on the third day (buried on Friday, remained buried through Saturday, and raised on Sunday) | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 8:00 | comment | added | oerkelens | I have come across the part of a unit is a unit calculation, basically age is not expresses as the number of years you have lived, but as the ordinal number indicating the year of life. So when a person is born, they are in their first year, hence they are said to be 1 year. Citation: when I met my Greek wife, she claimed to be older than I said I was, because she used this system. However, she did not count in calender years. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 7:08 | history | answered | Jeffrey Kemp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |