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You, you, you

"That is sooo infantile."

That is something said to a non-infant. It may be descriptive, but the purpose is to shame the person into not doing what is being labeled infantile again.

As a shaming device, it works. OK, it does not work on me precisely, but it slows me down. Is the act infantile? No, but if I adjust it, then it’s also clever and I again can justify my act or my utterance. Great pun, eh? Had you, huh?

"That is so adolescent." "That is so juvenile." "Sophomoric." All mean the same as infantile, intended to have the same impact, though they describe an entirely different age group.

The school marms among us, though, would say they all are the same age group: more sophisticated pranks or intentions but arising from the same faux Freudian ego urge.

Baby. "So immature."

So be it. -30-

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