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Twelfth Question  [message #63835] Wed, 15 September 2010 11:44 Go to next message
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I don't know how to say this without being insensitive but when you say your mentor was killed do you mean he died or was killed by someone?

I think it's a linguistic difference between Australia and America. Here in Aus generally while you can say "killed by cancer" etc unless you mention the cause it's assumed that "killing"= "murder" (or at least manslaughter). You typically use "died" or "past away" if it was natural or medical causes...

I'm sorry to be indelicate I'm just a little curious. I remember when Joe Biden was in the Vice-Presidential debate he kept talking about how his wife was killed and I was imagining a main-street homocide. Then he later mentioned that they died in a car accident and it threw me because I didn't know about that linguistic difference.



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Re: Twelfth Question  [message #63848 is a reply to message #63835] Wed, 15 September 2010 17:36 Go to previous message
timmy

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I think that event is important. The young man concerned may have no other tombstone than your relating the events. And a tombstone is a cold thing. He was a warm, living, loving, sentient human being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Please tell it, in necessary detail, here. I think it deserves a new thread.



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