The casual, vulgar way everyone permits himself to euphemize Death and Dying as 'Passing' is probably the worst feature of the New Language--
worse even than the loss of the imperfect subjunctive, or the utter hash that everyone makes of the transitive verb 'lay' and the intransitive verb 'lie.'
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