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The age where your brain's still a teenager's but your decisions have consequences now.
means The cardinal number between nineteen and twenty-one — also the age marking the first year of actual adulthood after the teens end.
from From Old English 'twentig,' built from 'twegen' (two) plus '-tig,' a suffix meaning 'group of ten' — so literally 'two tens.' The same '-tig' pattern gives us thirty, forty, and the rest, a fossil of an old Germanic counting-by-tens system still fused into our words.
- brain development
- prefrontal cortex still not finished until twenty-five
- etymology
- from old english twentig meaning two tens
- blackjack
- the hand everyone secretly hopes to draw
- cultural myth
- supposedly adulthood, actually just louder confusion