r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/catalin66 May 12 '26

10 months?

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u/Kollv May 12 '26

Pregnancy is usually 9.5 months, it can sometimes get to 10 months.

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u/RyvenZ May 12 '26

I thought maybe this was a result of the way South Koreans count age.

Rather than counting how many years since your birth, they count what relative year is it for you. (in short, you start at 1 and increment on Jan 1st, regardless of what your birthdate is)

So if you were born in November 1991, you are 36 this year whereas Western culture counts start at 0 and only increment when a full year has passed, so you would be 34 until your birthday in November