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What is your definition of morph? Can a baby morph into a toddler? | ||
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Without looking it up, I think morph has two origins, but you're speaking of the one meaning, "form." I see nothing wrong wish using the term as you have done. As for the other origin, babies and toddlers are at their best when Morpheus visits them! ![]() | |||
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Maybe, though I wouldn't use it that way. I think of Morph being a rather faster process. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I'd say Kalleh's example works OK if the child is not yours and you haven't seen them for a while. "My, how you've grown! Last time I saw you you were just a baby!" (To parents) "They grow up so fast!" I don't think anyone would talk of a baby morphing into a toddler in front of their eyes. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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For the record, someone else used that term (about my sweet grandchild), and I thought it was wrong - or, at least, like Bob, I'd not use it that way. I thought the definition was more like this. | |||
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More like metamorphosis? Still, "morph" is contained therein. | |||
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It just sounded odd to me. Babies don't go through metamorphosis when they grow. | |||
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