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Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 0:30
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>: > > > For non-anglophones, this refers to a cliche about people "turning > > over > > in their graves" if they could hear/see what was done with/to/by their > > works, children, or what have you after their deaths. > > We have that one in Swedish too. There's also a strengthened/jokified
version
> about "rotating" or "spinning" in their graves, which perhaps you've got
in
> English too?
Oh yes. As in, "That buzzing noise you hear is X spinning in his grave"
> > For some reason, I've lately heard alot of comments of old communist
leaders
> spinning in their graves, include about that they could supply Moscow's > electrictiy grid by attaching a generator to Stalin,
LOL!!