GR translation: the sus. per coll. crowd dangling

[Mike Jing]

Indeed it does.


On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Which tells us something about the prevalence of hanging in olden times
>
> But also something about the Slothrops, n’est ça pas?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > A-and the other sus per coll branches of the family tree were hanged for
> > other offenses
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM Michael Bailey <
> > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think the commas indicate that there was one witch in the Slothrop
> >> family tree
> >>
> >> And that one witch was snazzily described as part of the sus per coll
> >> crowd
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for the reply, Mike.
> >>>
> >>> I do understand the abbreviation and the word play here. I was just
> >>> wondering, since the phrase "dangling off of the Slothrop family tree"
> >>> modifies "the sus. per coll. crowd,"it seems to imply that there were
> >>> quite
> >>> a number of his ancestors and remote relatives who were hanged to
> death.
> >>> I
> >>> guess that's because hanging was quite popular once upon a time.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi Mike -  from the web
> >>> >
> >>> > In the case of a capital felony, it is written opposite the
> prisoner's
> >>> > name, "*let him be hanged by the neck*," which, when the proceedings
> >>> were
> >>> > in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form,
> >>> "sus'
> >>> > per coll'."
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > The sentence puns on being hung (dangling) from a tree and being on
> his
> >>> > family tree.
> >>> >
> >>> > The sus. per coll. crowd are his ancestors who've been hung to
> >>> death.Dangling is the last thing they all did.
> >>> >
> >>> > cheers
> >>> > Mike
> >>> >
> >>> > On 11/01/2025 20:05, Mike Jing wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > sus. per coll.
> >>> >
> >>> >
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