--- In TheFaceOfBach@y..., "Fredrik Fernbom" <fredrik.fernbom@t...>
wrote:
> Yoël wrote:
>
> >What a linguistic poverty that we lack a word of Todestag
> >in our English. Perhaps in view of Handel's natal tongue,
> >we can so commemorate this day with that fine word.
> >Or we could try Yiddish yortsayt:-)
>
> In Swedish we say "dödsdag". Why is it impossible to say
> "deathday" in English, when you can say "birthday"?
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Why cannot be asked:-). There simply is no concept of this sort in
English. Indeed the concept of commemorating a great person's
deathdate as opposed to birthdate seems peculiar to some persons whom
I know. "Anniversary of the death" is obviously a circumlocution and a
very clumpsy one at that.
Yoël