I saw this on my 12th birthday. I was heartbroken when Prime died. I didn't cry but i was extremely shicked and just deflated. Then, literally a year later i pushed my parents to take me to see Robocop on my 13th birthday. I was completely desensitized to the violence and thought it was the greatest movie that could ever exist. Amazing how much a preteen can change in a year.
-- Sent from my 13 year old P.O.S. Desktop®
Also consider that you didn't likely carry the same emotional investment for Murphy/Robocop as you did for Optimus Prime, a character you probably viewed in numerous episodes, plus the overall violence in the animated Transformers film was completely unlike anything from the show.
share"I saw this on my 12th birthday."
"..on my 13th birthday."
Why do some people say it this way, instead of 'when I turned [number]'?
Do you realize you are probably wrong, when you say it this way?
Think about it. How old were you when you were born? Your FIRST birthday, you are 0 years old. Your SECOND birthday, you are 1 years old. Well, 'one year old'.
So 12th birthday, you are 11 years old. Did you mean this? If so, never mind. I bet 100 euros that you didn't, though. You probably meant 'the day you turned 12 years old', so please either stop using this way or at least use it correctly.
Of course on your thirteenth birthday, you would turn twelve. Yes, that's right, you were 12 years old on your 13th birthday, if you are being truthful about it. If you meant 'when you turned 13 years old', you made a horrible, horrible mistake here, or lied.
In any case, perhaps you used it correctly and you DID mean you were 12 years old on your 13th birthday, in which case, never mind this post.
WTF?! This isn't college writing 101. It's a dumb message board. LOL.
shareThe grammar is correct. Your first birthday would be when you turned one. The second would be when you turned two. So on and so forth. The OP is correct in saying he was 12 on his 12th birthday. He could have still said “when I turned 12” and it would have been correct but saying it was his 12th birthday is perfectly fine.
I think you are mistaking your birth day with your birthday. The space makes all the difference. Your birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It’s all one word. Your birth day is the day in which you were born. In this case, the word birth is an adjective. If you said both terms out loud, it would still sound the same but most people would be pretty confused if you referred to the day of your birth in that way.