On 31/03/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 3/31/07 12:00 PM, Oldak Quill at
oldakquill(a)gmail.com wrote:
How do you even define "harm"? Physical
damage? Mental upset?
To cut someone's head is to hurt them - this will heal.
To decapitate someone is to harm them - this will not heal.
This is not a definition of harm I recognise.
The Oxford English Dictionary on "harm": 'To do harm (to); to injure
(physically or otherwise); to hurt, damage. Orig. intr. To be hurtful,
with dative (like L. noc{emac}re), which was sometimes in ME.
expressed by to, but generally became a simple object, making the verb
trans.'
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)