On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > and 'how old are you' (as a quick > example off the top of my head, not necessarily the greyest I could come up > with if I spent more time thinking about it) is somewhere in the middle.. Actually, if you think a bit more about this you might conclude that it's not in the middle at all. It's almost always pejorative, whether the implied age is young or old.