LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.07 (03) [EN]

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From: "Brooks, Mark" <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
 Subject: LL-L Euphemisms


Greetings Lowlanders:



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.”



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?



Thanks,

Mark Brooks

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