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The keyword here is "nearly in", that is to say nearly starting her fourth decade. Once you reach 30, you have 'finished' living for 3 decades and you start your fourth. It's kinda like how we are in the 21st century even though the 2000s, relatively speaking, just started and it is no where near the year 2100 yet. Semantics, i know, but thats just how english works sometimes

Edit: also, its troubling that people are starting to rely on ai for trivial matters like this. It's like giving up on thinking all together and asking someone to just hand you the answer

Besides, GenAI is in and of itself not infallible and there is always a non zero chance that it they generate a wrong answer

if you have ever seen ai generated images/artworks you know what i mean

SamohtSirrom1175 days ago

"Once you reach 30, you have 'finished' living for 3 decades and you start your fourth" (Yes exactly) however at 29 they are saying she is almost 4 decades old not "Starting her 4th decade" she wouldn't "Almost be" in her 4th decade until she was 39 that is why I said the information in the gane was incorrect

Abc5432190 days ago

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but your argument here is incorrect. They are not saying that she is nearly 4 decades old. Instead, they are saying she is "nearly in" or in other words about to start her fourth decade (which begins the moment a person hits age 30). If they meant to say that she was almost 40 years old, the sentence would be more along the lines of: "nearly at the end of your fourth decade".

You are focusing too much on what a decade is and missing the context of the entire sentence

SamohtSirrom167 days ago

A decade starts at 10 years... You are not 1 dacade the moment you are born. 10 years=1 decade, 20 years=2 decades, 30 years = 3 decades, 40 years= 4 decades... Thus if the lady is 26-29 she is Almost 3 decades old not 4 decades old.

Abc5432167 days ago

A decade is simply a period of 10 years. The word 'decade' itself does not have any inherent positional meaning. Ergo, your understanding of the word is incorrect. The start of a 10-year period is in fact year 0. The 10th year would mark the end of that decade; not the start.

That said, I don’t believe there’s anything more I can add that would change your perspective. So I’ll leave things here

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