Timeline for Are there multiple ways to count age in Italian?
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 18:47 | comment | added | Easymode44 | @DaG I think the answers do a pretty good job at saying that the answer is clearly no, while adding some additional context. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 9:18 | comment | added | DaG | Some of the comments and answers are somewhat besides the point. While any given person, in Italy and elsewhere, is free, when talking about their age, to round up, down, be imprecise, or outright lie, this has nothing to do with the question, which was about the eventuality of "multiple ways to count age in Italian". No, there is just a single way. | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 14:02 | comment | added | linuxfan says Reinstate Monica | @GiuseppeRomanazzi you are true, everybody can say everything. But the majority of the people, when speaking seriously, and the italian law, work like I said. | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 13:52 | comment | added | Joe at wearyourchinesename.com | @linuxfansaysReinstateMonica I believe this is true for you and many Italians like you, but it cannot be so generalized to everybody. | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 12:09 | answer | added | Easymode44 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 12:07 | answer | added | Joe at wearyourchinesename.com | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 11:25 | comment | added | linuxfan says Reinstate Monica | We in Italy use to say "I have xx years" starting exactly from the birthday day, not before. One can say "I have 20 years" and that means "I have lived for 20 full years". | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 1:03 | comment | added | Egg-Fault | I appreciate the input. Without any familiarity with Italian culture it is impossible for me to judge whether this is indeed a simple miscalculation, but if you can't see another explanation then it must be so. That one abuse of arithmetic can propagate itself across such disparate publications certainly illustrates the importance of doing one's own research. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 23:36 | comment | added | DaG | No, it's just that the world – and especially Italian newspapers – is full of lazy people. A lazy person just subtracts the birth year from the death year, without bothering about months – or more likely copies from someone who did that subtraction before. | |
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| S Feb 22, 2022 at 23:00 | history | asked | Egg-Fault | CC BY-SA 4.0 |