Teenagers

[nq:1]I wonder if other languages than English have the word "teenager" and the associated concepts. In English (I'm presuming now) ... French, Italian) the patterns don't persist past 16. In German you get "zehn" on the end, but are there "Zehnsteren"?[/nq]
You can get words in multiple languages by going to machine-translation programs like Google/Language Tools, or www.worldlingo.com .

chrissy schrieb:
[nq:1]I wonder if other languages than English have the word "teenager" and the associated concepts. In English (I'm presuming now) ... French, Italian) the patterns don't persist past 16. In German you get "zehn" on the end, but are there "Zehnsteren"?[/nq]
In German, there aren't.
We either use your word "teenager" or our own "Jugendliche" (youths), which are older t

[nq:1]I wonder if other languages than English have the word "teenager" and the associated concepts. In English (I'm presuming now) ... French, Italian) the patterns don't persist past 16. In German you get "zehn" on the end, but are there "Zehnsteren"?[/nq]
The term "teenager" is becoming universal partly because other languages don't have a similar term. But I think most other countries don'

[nq:1]I wonder if other languages than English have the word "teenager" and the associated concepts. In English (I'm presuming now) ... French, Italian) the patterns don't persist past 16. In German you get "zehn" on the end, but are there "Zehnsteren"?[/nq]
There is a sizeable literature on the development of the concept "teenager" in sociology, especially of the softer or popular kind. The c

[nq:1]In English (I'm presuming now) it's formed from the suffix "teen" on the words for the numbers 13-19 inclusive, but in other languages (eg French, Italian) the patterns don't persist past 16. In German you get "zehn" on the end, but are there "Zehnsteren"?[/nq]
Polish does have a good equivalent - "nastolatek". The "nasto-" part comes from an inflected form of "-nas'cie", which correspon

[nq:2]In English (I'm presuming now) it's formed from the suffix ... you get "zehn" on the end, but are there "Zehnsteren"?[/nq]
[nq:1]Polish does have a good equivalent - "nastolatek". The "nasto-" part comes from an inflected form of "-nas'cie", which corresponds ... must sound complicated, so the short answer is - Polish has such a word based on the same concept.

[nq:1]There is a sizeable literature on the development of the concept "teenager" in sociology, especially of the softer or popular kind. The concept is usually assigned to the mid-1950s and to the United States.[/nq]
Hmm. I myself became a teenager in 1948 and I can't recall the term "teenager" being in use at that time. I think it wasn't, which is a mild surprise. Some aspects of teenage cul

[nq:2]There is a sizeable literature on the development of the ... usually assigned to the mid-1950s and to the United States.[/nq]
[nq:1]Hmm. I myself became a teenager in 1948 and I can't recall the term "teenager" being in use at that ... aspects of teenage culture definitely began earlier; I'm thinking of shrieking girls at Frank Sinatra concerts in the early 40s.[/nq]
There were young

[nq:2]Hmm. I myself became a teenager in 1948 and I ... shrieking girls at Frank Sinatra concerts in the early 40s.[/nq]
[nq:1]There were young people then who were called something like "Bobbysoxers". I do not know whether they were always female, but I think the Sinatra fans were and I think they wore shoes called "saddle oxfords".[/nq]
And, of course, they wore bobby sox (socks).
As

[nq:2]Hmm. I myself became a teenager in 1948 and I ... shrieking girls at Frank Sinatra concerts in the early 40s.[/nq]
[nq:1]There were young people then who were called something like "Bobbysoxers". I do not know whether they were always female, ... were and I think they wore shoes called "saddle oxfords". A male variation might have been the ones called "Zootsuiters".[/nq]
Bobbysoxers