Rip Stop
When do you think it is time to stop using RIP when we speak of a dead person?
I think it's a kind of ridiculous that people still feel the need to rip after talking about Kurt Cobain, Biggie, Tupac and. I mean you do not see people saying that about Abe Lincoln or Martin Luther King. I guess it's just a stupid pet peeve of mine company, (and I confess I feel like character of Paul Ruud in Role Models at this time), but for some reason, it bothers me.
Shawn is a good point. Different cultures and subcultures have different phrases or words they use. Often, the equivalent of RIP is in another language, if English speakers at least know what it means to rip. Usually RIP or its equivalent, is used to honor a friend or family member. Certainly, in ordinary conversation, it is necessary to always talk about if it's a rip certain celebrity. I would say that after a generation, people stop to say RIP whenever a deceased person is mentioned. As For example, I am not the equivalent RIP when I talk about my great-grandfather, as I have never known, he died before I never met, and no one I know considers it necessary to comment on his death, it is obvious that it is long gone, long time. Often one of the main reasons why a person says RIP to communicate to the listener that the speaker is in shock or grieving the death or the deceased.
