alain said:
>   If only I were that young! 
>   I'm afraid you have to add twelve years to the count.
...
>   BTW, "t'huit ans" is a joke that can't be translated in English 
>   (it might represent 28, 38, 48, 58 or 68), so that means 
>   you have to pick up one of those numbers and live with it.

this is beginning to resemble a story problem.

anyway, alain, congratulations on your 28th birthday...

-bowerbird

p.s.  i can write a program to compute alain's age in 68 lines.
who can do better?