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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 15:08
Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:


> Katav Andreas Johansson:
>
> > We're talking the Soviet Union under Stalin here. 20 years in the
> GULag
> wasn't
> > particularly extreme.
>
> Aha. The most cruel thing was "10 years without right for
> correspondence"
> which meant shooting up.

Is "shooting up" idiomatic for "being executed"?

                                                        Andreas

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