Talk:Eleventeen (EP)

111/21
On 1 Sep 2006, an anonymous IP (with no other edits) replaced the number 21 with 111. I changed it back.

The word "eleventeen" is a childish or whimsical way to say 21, or a reference to extended adolescence (still being a teenager despite being of major age). The overgeneralization from thirteen, fourteen, etc. isn't one that young children often make, but it's a common joke that slightly older children make, and it is sometimes used in "cute kid" dialog written by adults.

I'd bet that the band later known as Eve 6 intended the extended adolescence reading. At least one other band with the same name has a theme song with the words "nineteen, tenteen, eleventeen" and "don't tell me to grow up." Daisy Chainsaw's eleventeen-year-old singer KatieJane also used it the same way on the album Eleventeen.

I can imagine someone (a non-native speaker?) thinking that the pattern is that thirteen is a three prefixed by a one, etc., so eleventeen is 111. But children don't actually use it that way (or any similar patterns based on orthography), and the etymology of "teen" is obviously (even to small children) related to 10, not prefixed-with-a-one. --76.203.75.30 01:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Why no Daisy Chainsaw?
In [], reference to the first Daisy Chainsaw album was removed from this page (along with a bunch of cruft).

I think the most famous release by Daisy Chainsaw is far more notable than the least famous release by Eve 6.

Also, the Daisy Chainsaw page actually links here. --76.203.75.30 01:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)