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</div><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Brooks, Mark" <<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

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Subject: LL-L Euphemisms</span><span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Greetings Lowlanders:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">I
 was thinking recently about how we US Americans refer to someone dying 
as passing away. We’ll say it instead of saying he died. Sometimes the 
speaker will even lower the voice when uttering the words “passed away.”
 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">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?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thanks,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Mark Brooks </span></p></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">=========================================================</font><br>

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