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Another one that drives me a little crazy, is the euphemism "passed" for "died".
I did hear "passed away" when I was a kid, I guess in an attempt to shield us from the reality that we're all gonna croak eventually, but now it seems to have been shortened to just "passed" and is used all the time instead of just plainly saying somebody died.
Really? We're all adults. We know that everybody dies. Let's stop trying to skirt around the fact with nonsensical terms.
I've commonly heard 'passed on', as in passed on to a better place. But then I've been in the south for a long time and there are a LOT of people here who believe in the afterlife, so it stands to reason.
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This thread seems to contain two types of posts:
1. posts complaining about people who use language incorrectly, and don't realize it, usually while trying to sound very educated
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2. people who use unusual turns of a phrase or euphemisms
#1 bothers me to death, but I love unusual language
There used to be a column in the Readers Digest magazine, "toward more colorful speech" where readers sent in examples of interesting turns of a phrase. Loved that!!
I've commonly heard 'passed on', as in passed on to a better place. But then I've been in the south for a long time and there are a LOT of people here who believe in the afterlife, so it stands to reason.
This reminds me of some religious people who say someone has "gone home," when they die. One of the partners at our firm asked one of the legal assistants if her father was any better because she had taken an FML(A )when her father was gravely ill. She said, "He has gone home." The guy said, "Oh, that's wonderful! I know you are glad!" until someone explained to him that the woman's father died.
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