• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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        Yeah, good luck with that definition. “Kid” is often used as the umbrella term for someone’s offspring, which includes babies and teenagers. Some slangs even use it to refer to just a guy, even if that guy is very much adult.
        You’ll inevitably talk to plenty people that don’t have your specific textbook definition in mind for when a baby turns into a toddler preschooler kid.

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      It makes perfect sense. Would you call a baby born today a “2020s kid”? They’re a baby, they won’t remember shit. They’ll be a kid (and adolescent) in the 30s. That’s when formative experiences will occur

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        I just want to say, this is the first time I’ve seen/heard the 2030s referred to as simply “the 30s” in a casual sentence. It still feels weird. But eh, that’s life. I still remember “2002” feeling like a far-off future.

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      I was born in the 70s, and I’m in no way a 70s kid. I was an 80s kid, and a 90s teen.

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        If they were born in 78-79, they’d have spent a good 3 years of childhood in the 90’s. Being 11 years old in 1990, it would be the mid-90’s before they hit their adolescent years. This would make them 90’s kids by the definition that they were kids in the 90’s that also remember the 90’s