I know you probably are scratching your head … but, I never knew this up until this point. Apparently “tween” has a double meaning … “Between” or “A child between middle childhood and adolesence, usually between 8 and 12 years old”. Yikes.

Stephanie Rieger had used it in a context that I thought was at first a Freudian Slip, but I was amusingly surprised when I looked it up.

The context was: … with a particular focus on casual gaming and edutainment for kids and tweens …, used in an upcoming Adobe Mobile User Group meeting post.

Here are the Dictionary lookups:

Look up: Tweens
Look up: Tween

Fortunately, we’re still ok with plain old: tweening.

Anyways, it’s true … you learn something new everyday … I’ll attribute it to my poor vocabulary skills.

But, now you ought to think twice about using tweens in your conversations with anyone outside of Flash/animation, or they may take your meaning completely out of context (re-read the previous sentence, and you’ll see what I mean).

Yeah, I know I’m blowing it way out of proportion … but it is kind of humerous to find out the second meaning, especially if you use the “lingo” a great deal.

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