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

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? Also, we often speak as if they were really seeing/hearing and
therefore turning over/spinning.

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, since he certainly must
be spinning really quickly seeing what you get away with in Russia today
without even being sent to Magadan for 20 years.

                                                          andreas

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