Nolli, one of the guys I worked with who was in his 30s called me "vintage Ann", so I said I liked that made me think of wine and cheese also. I joined a local small swimming pool, very pretty victorian purpose built. Not a very good swimmer, didnt learn till I was 40, Thursday morning is over 60s, from 9-10.30, I went in there recently, young girl stopped me, said "excuse me, this session is for old age pensions", I have to say I was flattered tha I obviously dont look too bad in my cossie. Told her I WAS over 60, and detest that label. My grirlfriend at work retired at 50, my hubbies cousin retired in her 40s, if you have the funds, you can retire when you jolly well want to.
Well it seems this website is very useful to the elderly. Interesting that some folks are offended by that word and others not. I lived in Japan for a while in my younger days and the Japanese word for 'old' is 'furui'. When you look up the meaning of 'furui' in English it also means stale, ancient, aged, antiquated, outmoded, obsolete article and threadbare. Perhaps 'elderly' is not so bad!
Think l'd rather be elderly than stale or an obsolete article. Good insult though, "Get out of my sight, you obsolete article !". Might keep that one for future use
Two doors down from me, lives a Japanese lady with her English husband and pre-school sons. I know from her that the elderly are utterly respected and even revered in Japan, so when I read, "the Japanese word for 'old' is 'furui' " and the meanings given, I felt something was rather odd. Though, of course, the same word can have a variety of meanings, dependent on context. However, I googled the word "elderly":
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Two doors down from me, lives a Japanese lady with her English husband and pre-school sons. I know from her that the elderly are utterly respected and even revered in Japan, so when I read, "the Japanese word for 'old' is 'furui' " and the meanings given, I felt something was rather odd. Though, of course, the same word can have a variety of meanings, dependent on context. However, I googled the word "elderly":
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/japanese-word-for-eb229edafc79a2f7c5dbb524cc3af66a891af24c.html
How to say elderly in Japanese
What's the Japanese word for elderly? Here's a list of translations.
高齢者
Kōrei-sha
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