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Language and Age: Teenspeak

Teenspeak Questions: 1. If we are to assume that we do speak differently at various times in our life, how could you argue that age is the most significant factor Although there are obviously times where people experience a life even too early in their life, most events happen at certain times in your life. and when you are a certain age. For example: having a child or children is a huge life event that some people will experience from the ages of 20-30. However there are some people who have children very early in life or later, but stereotypically women will have a child after the age of 20 and before the age of 40. The ages of 20-30 is the time when most people become more independent and more mature, especially if you have a child be be looking after. As an adult you are now expected to act a certain way and if you have children there will be come colloquial terms that you may drop as they're more of a teenage thing or they're not appropriate anymore. Retirement is als...