Marc Riddell wrote:
on 3/31/07 12:00 PM, Oldak Quill at oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
How do you even define "harm"? Physical damage? Mental upset?
On 31/03/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
To cut someone's head is to hurt them - this will heal.
To decapitate someone is to harm them - this will not heal.
on 3/31/07 1:24 PM, Oldak Quill at oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
This is not a definition of harm I recognise.
It is, however, most precise.
Precise, but, by the dictionaries I have, inaccurate.
Perhaps while discussing things on a big mailing list you could stick with the common definition of words? Or failing that, to warn people when you're going to use an old word in a new way? It would save a lot of this back-and-forth stuff, which doesn't seem to be advancing the discussion much.
William