[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[William Pietri]

Marc Riddell wrote:
>>> on 3/31/07 12:00 PM, Oldak Quill at oldakquill at gmail.com wrote:
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>>>> How do you even define "harm"? Physical damage? Mental upset?
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>> On 31/03/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> To cut someone's head is to hurt them - this will heal.
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>>> To decapitate someone is to harm them - this will not heal.
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> on 3/31/07 1:24 PM, Oldak Quill at oldakquill at gmail.com wrote:
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>> This is not a definition of harm I recognise.
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> It is, however, most precise.
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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