Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
>> On 2008-11-18 Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>> In my (tween) idiolect at least, _måste_ "must, have to,
>>> need to" works in all
>>> of those.
>>>
>> <slaps head> Of course! Sometimes the obvious is too
>> obvious.
>>
>> But are you really a tween (8-13 y.o.)?
>
> I'm not. For some reason I thought it meant someone in their twenties (I'm 26).
Tolkien used the word in that way (of hobbits).
"At that time Frodo was still in his _tweens_, as the hobbits called the
irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three."