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20 hours agoThings must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers “children” in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they’re not children doesn’t make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.
Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.