[lbo-talk] transition

[Shane Mage]

Doug asks:
>A lot of the black people around WBAI say "transitioned" or "made his
>transition" to say "died." Is this in wide use? Where's it come from?

Sounds to me typically WBAI: pretentious latinizing of the ordinary
phrase "passing over."

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62