Jeff Goldstein has devised an excellent new euphemism for children. After rejecting little persons and pre-adults and future adults, he lit upon spatiotemporally-challenged proto-adults. I hope to see this accepted as the common usage in all official reports, directives, ukases and commands.
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Yes yes yes, but will this deal of the issue of their babbling and drooling? Is terminology the answer, or ought we to consider a different approach to the…issue.