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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
by dymk 5y ago
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.
- gotaquestion 5y ago
- attackroll 5y agoI 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