This is your study age. Please correct it?

[Naeem PTC]

Hi teachers,

1) This is your study age. Please correct it?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[5jj]

Sorry Naeem, but I don't know what you wish to say. Can you try to say it in other words?

 

[Naeem PTC]

Hi,

This is your playing age. This is your studying age?

 

[emsr2d2]

What is a playing age? Do you mean that when you are a child then you are at an age when it's appropriate to play, and then when you are a little older you are at an age when you should study?

 

[crazYgeeK]

What is a playing age? Do you mean that when you are a child then you are at an age when it's appropriate to play, and then when you are a little older you are at an age when you should study?

I think that's exactly what the threadstarter wants to mean. If I were him/her, I would also use the same terms to express what you asked for confirm. Could you please suggest us some suitable terms here?
What about 'age to play', 'age to study'?
Thank you very much!

 

[Tdol]

It might work in the negative: You're too old to play/be playing.

 

[Naeem PTC]

Exactly what you said. @emsr2d2


So "this is your playing/studying age." is unusual? I should say "you are too old to play." but it doesn't mean what I want to say exactly. @Tdol

 

[bhaisahab]

What about, "You are at an age where you should study, not play"?

 

[crazYgeeK]

Exactly what you said. @emsr2d2


So "this is your playing/studying age." is unusual? I should say "you are too old to play." but it doesn't mean what I want to say exactly. @Tdol

I think we should learn how to think the way English speakers think, I can figure out why those words are not understandable to native speakers. The same wrong way of thinking can be found in this phrase 'four-age baby' (the correct one is 'four-year-old baby') or 'She has 18 ages' (the correct one is 'She is 18 years old')... Applying in your situation, I think 'age can't play', 'age can't study', or simply 'age' can't be used that way. I wonder if 'playing time' can be used? I think we should say as Tdol suggested, 'you are too old to play', 'you should play at your age', 'you should learn at your age', ... I think we can always find a way to express what we want (in English way).

That's only my share on understanding why those words are strange and meaningless. Refer it at your own risk.
Thanks!

 

[emsr2d2]

There are certain phrases which spring to mind but they're not very consistent.

My son is kindergarten age.
She is pre-school age.
They are school age.
He is of working age.
She is retirement age.

The only way I could make an interrogative of them would be the obvious:

Are your kids school age yet?

I wouldn't say "What school age are you?" and definitely not "What is your studying age?"

 

[Naeem PTC]

@ emsr2d2

1) He is not of working age.
2) You are not of playing age. Correct?
3) You are not of studying age. Correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

@ emsr2d2

1) He is not of working age.
2) You are not of playing age. Correct?
3) You are not of studying age. Correct?

Not really, no. That's why I said that the phrases which spring to mind in natural English don't have a consistent pattern.

Even though I would say "of working age" when talking about adults, if I were talking about children, I would only use "pre school age" or "school age". I don't think we have a phrase which explains a period of one's life when it is appropriate to play! You can play at any age. "School age" clearly refers to an age somewhere between 5 and 16. After that, you are of "working age" even if you choose not to get a job. We don't have a similar phrase for the age when people normally go to university. "Retirement age" is from somewhere around 60 and above.