"condition" = dyscondition?
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri May 9 14:23:18 UTC 2003
At 12:40 PM -0400 5/8/03, sagehen wrote:
>We've come to understand "heart condition" and "lung condition" to mean
>diseased or dysfunctional organs, but somehow "health condition" seems to
>be carrying it a bit far. What a great out for an insurance company to use
>such language in a policy contract! This comes to mind on hearing that
>SARS has a 50% mortality rate among people (over 65) with a "pre-existing
>health condition."
>A. Murie
Well, if colleges can have "substance-free" dorms,...
larry
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