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Re:Are you a baby? A litmus test by dymk on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:59PM (#30910677)
The person I'm responding to acknowledges that "is a" & "acts like a" are equivalent in the context of the article.

If somebody is getting hung up on something as nit-picky as that, they're not going to see the forest for the trees in an article like this.

Ironically, playing nit-picky semantics games like this is the kind of avoidant attitude that lead people astray from personal growth.

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Re:Are you a baby? A litmus test by attackroll on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:08AM (#30916454)
I think you're both right:

* someone reacting strongly to this slight difference is "acting like a baby", at least colloquially, but I'm not sure if it meets the author's definition of "active".

* the author using the term "acting like a baby" might get through to people who are sensitive to the difference

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