believe me, Carrol, but people -- including many working for the government -- use the "value of human life" in sentences all the time even though it may sound like "a yellow logarithm" to you and me.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > This thread goes far beyond my powers of comprehension, but it seems to me > "the value of human life" cannot be used as the subject to an sentence in > English. It is something like saying the volume of ingratitude or the color > of electrons or the width of sincerity. It simply makes no sense. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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