LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.09 (01) [EN-SCO]

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 From: Paul Finlow-Bates wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk
 Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.08 (08) [EN]

Listen to the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch to hear John Cleese deliver
a string of euphemisms for dying!

Paul

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From: M.-L. Lessing marless at gmx.de
 Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.08 (08) [EN]

Hello all,

among the colloquial German terms for "to die" i missed "ins Gras beißen"
(or did it escape me?). Moreover a friend of mine says "verblichen"
("verbleichen" = "to go pale") when somebody has died: "Er ist letzte Woche
verblichen." But this is very rare; she does so to indicate that the person
is *not *dead, because she believes in transmigration of souls. -- Very old
people sometimes use "verblichen" like an adjective: "Ich habe Ihren
verblichenen Vater sehr geschätzt." But I never heard "verbleichen" used in
active form ("Sie verbleicht gerade").

Hartlich

Marlou

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From: Sandy Fleming fleemin at live.co.uk
 Subject:

> From: "Brooks, Mark" <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>> Subject: LL-L
Euphemisms >I
  began to wonder if this might be a Lowlands thing. Do Lowlands
languages use an equivalent of passed away? What other euphemisms do
Lowlands languages use for dying?

In Scots it would be normal to pass on the news by just saying "Tam's deid"
[did].
A more sensitive way of saying it would be to say he's "awa" ("away", or
gone).
It's common enough in the more traditional Scots culture to speak about
death both humorously and superstitiously, both mannerisms sometimes being
combined, especially in the well known phrase (these days less frequent but
at one time used copiously to ward off a jinx), "If I'm spared," eg, "Weel,
I'll see ye the morn, if I'm spared."
A Scottish joke about death...
Twa men wis gaun by a new cemetry that haed been laid oot aa new-fangled and
"continental" insteed o in the tradeetional fashion.
Ane o them says, "See thon, I'd raither be deid than be buried in sic a
place."
The ither ane says, "Och, no me; that's juist the kin o place I'd want tae
be buried in, if I'm spared."
Sandy Fleminghttp://scotstext. org/

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From: "Steven Hanson" <ammurit at gmail.com>
 Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.08 (08) [EN]

As an extension of ‘to kick the bucket’, we now have the concept of a
‘bucket list’, ie. a list of achievements a person wants to accomplish
before they die, which was originally the title of a movie, but I have since
heard it used in regular speech.


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