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I used to volunteer in the youth service and we were told we must refer to teenagers as 'young people', because the word 'teenager' is patronising. :roll: This is one instance where people are right to say that political correctness has definitely gone mad.nodnirG kraM wrote:Just where the hell has this "young adult" shit come from? I'm hearing more and more kids identifying themselves as it these days.
No, my dear, *I* am a young adult. You are a child. Or a teenager.
Yup. Teenager is not patronising, at least not to me.Chie wrote:I used to volunteer in the youth service and we were told we must refer to teenagers as 'young people', because the word 'teenager' is patronising. :roll: This is one instance where people are right to say that political correctness has definitely gone mad.nodnirG kraM wrote:Just where the hell has this "young adult" shit come from? I'm hearing more and more kids identifying themselves as it these days.
No, my dear, *I* am a young adult. You are a child. Or a teenager.
That's as patronising as David Cameron.Nini wrote:Not now Malpass, adults are talking.


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