# Teens in other languages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-in-other-languages/298744>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-in-other-languages/298744 "2005-04-11T04:26:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-in-other-languages/298744/41 "2005-05-04T15:56:08Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> Hey, I remember in Germany trying to take my daughter to a Disney movie (I forget which one) but she couldn’t go in because there was some implied violence and she wasn’t six years old yet. Disney would go broke here if five year olds couldn’t watch their stuff.

The get around that by censoring (some of) their movies for the German market. Sadly, the German DVDs also contain the the censored versions, so that it’s difficult to watch the original movies here.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-in-other-languages/298744/42 "2005-05-04T16:25:57Z")

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> I’d be willing to bet good money that Italian is similar in it’s treatment of adolescents and the numbers between 10 and 20.

How much ?

Anyway you’d lose, they have the same pattern the whole way thro’ - it’s (& I can’t spell Italian so we’re going with the sounds in case of error) undici, duodici, tredici, quattordici, quindici, seidici then the pattern changes - possibly for pronunciation purposes because the meaning is the logic is the samd - diecisiete, dieciotto, diecinove.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-in-other-languages/298744/43 "2005-05-04T16:28:27Z")

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Perhaps I wasn’t clear when I said the pattern stays the same I meant the combination of number plus ten rather than having 'different words for 11 & 12.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-in-other-languages/298744/44 "2005-05-04T16:48:50Z")

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> [@mkl12](#):
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> The get around that by censoring (some of) their movies for the German market. Sadly, the German DVDs also contain the the censored versions, so that it’s difficult to watch the original movies here.

We were watching original English versions, so I don’t think they were censored. This was at the Turmpalast theater in Frankfurt aM.

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