Comment on Meaning of the phrase “Hang dead.”?

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AuroraGlamour@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oooooh!

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• voytek709@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In this context, do you think it means “I will kill you by hanging”? How would you use “hang dead” in a sentence?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “We’re gonna catch that dirty, rotten, cattle-thieving S.O.B. and he’ll hang dead for what he done!”

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    • voytek709@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      thanks!! if used with just “hang dead”, is it telling someone to hang dead??

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If English isn’t the primary language of the person who wrote it, they could have meant “kill yourself.” But I can only guess what their intentions were.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A judicial sentence might read that one is to be hung until “dead, dead, dead”. That’s all I got.

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