for all those linguistic mishaps...
"Due to the hard ground the dead were interned in the trees"
Still can't figure what should have been used rather than "interned" - any suggeations?
interred - I think
Interred = in the ground (in terra)buried doesn't do it either - what do the Parsees and the N Am Indians do?
What time are you on, Neil?
You're right I suppose - even if the speaker meant "interred", it is an oxymoron to say that a person is interred in a tree. Double whammy...
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Still can't figure what should have been used rather than "interned" - any suggeations?
interred - I think
Interred = in the ground (in terra)
buried doesn't do it either - what do the Parsees and the N Am Indians do?
What time are you on, Neil?
You're right I suppose - even if the speaker meant "interred", it is an oxymoron to say that a person is interred in a tree. Double whammy...
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