"adult-typed", do you feel it's weird or natural?

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For Ailu (a brand) Calcium, we have adult-typed and children-typed. Is it right to use such words to mean for adult and for children? And can we simply call a Calcium formulation like Caltrate D 600 tablets Ailu Calcium? Anyway it's a formulation, not the element Ca.

Vorpar · Accepted Answer

Commonly, it would be "for adults" or "for children".

For a medication, "adult dosage" or "children's dosage".

Avangi · Answer

ecopsywe have adult-typed and children-typed.

Yes, I think it's weird.

It would be more natural to say "We have a type/formulation for adults and one for children."

Adding the "d" to "type" is uncommon in my experience.

Something which has been "typed" has been evaluated for type.

Typing blood is the process of determining its type.

We have the Jaguar E type, not the Jaguar E-typed.

I've heard children or uneducated people say "This is a girl's typed bicycle."

Ecopsy · Answer

First, thank you two. Then, this was used in a script of a translator from a company for which I'd worked. One reason I quitted from the company is that I don't want to follow the examples of seniors like this one until my English is ruined. So I think I was  right about it and fortunately manage to limit such instances to a small number.

"adult-typed", do you feel it's weird or natural?

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