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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Both mean the same?

Jumping off a roof would be a three to life. Vs. It would be a threat to life to jump off a roof.
  

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The expression ‘threat to life’ is somewhat ambiguous, in that it could mean a threat to one’s own life or a threat to anyone on whom one lands. Either way, jumping of the roof of a tall building would be a threat to the jumper’s life. Either construction of sentence is life-threatening.

  • The expression ‘threat to life’ is somewhat ambiguous, in that it could mean a threat to one’s own life or a threat to anyone on whom one lands.
  • Either way, jumping of the roof of a tall building would be a threat to the jumper’s life.
  • Either construction of sentence is life-threatening.
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The expression ‘threat to life’ is somewhat ambiguous, in that it could mean a threat to one’s own life or a threat to anyone on whom one lands.
Either way, jumping of the roof of a tall building would be a threat to the jumper’s life. Either construction of sentence is life-threatening.
“Jumping off a roof would be a threat to one’s life.”
“It would be a threat to one’s life

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