In English, we say, "I am twenty seven years old," but in Italian they say, "I have twenty seven years." English inherently equates age with something you ARE, with your identity as a person. Italian inherently equates age with something you HAVE, how long you've had experiences under your belt.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. If I'm wrong about it having a subtle effect, then I'd definitely rather know than not. I've heard native Italian speakers say that there is a slight difference in thought on this so I was just under that impression.

Please don't read too much into my post. This thought was not intended to be all "whoa there is no spoon". I always thought this language difference was like how it rubs me the wrong way when someone says my son "has autism" as opposed to when they say he " is autistic". One of them implies that there is a disorder on top of who the person is and the other implies that it's just who the person is. It's subtle but there is a difference in that case between have and is and how it can make it sound to a person.

Really, not trying to be deep with the language thing, just thought it was interesting if people thought of age differently based on how they describe it.