se murió en mis manos comiéndose la lengua
Hello. What does -- se murió en mis manos comiéndose la lengua -- mean? Does it mean the person strangled the other person?
4 Answers
This person "died in my arms choking on their own tongue".
I couldn't make any sense of this, so I did a search on Bing. It led me to a YouTube where some kids made a video pretending to eat their own tongue. Sounds gross, but they thought it was funny.
he/she died in my hands eating his/her own tongue
Gross.
Actually, this sentence comes from Beth Kurti Millers book "Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and fallen idols, from a narrative (Memorias) written by Leonor López. López was referring to her Aunt's servant that died in her arms.
I don't think it means the person was strangled. It think it means, literally, "He died in my hands, biting his tongue." I am inclined to take it literally and think the person could have been having a convulsion. But biting your tongue is also an expression in English that means not saying something you want to say. I don't know what the figurative expression would be in Spanish, though the chances of it being the literal translation are somewhat slim. In English we would say someone died in my arms rather than hands, so we would say "he died in my arms, biting his tongue." I am not sure what to make of it.
Hope this helps.
