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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, March 17, 2003, 10:04
En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> > "The great Shakespeare/Bacon controversy can be resolved at last. > After > last night's performance of _Hamlet_, all that will be necessary is to > exhume both bodies. The one that has turned over is it." >
LOL.
> 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. >
It's not an anglophone cliche only. The expression exists in France too ;))) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.

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