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Re:Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedis... by davidweir on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:17AM (#9111459)
In addition to "the quick and the dead", it also appears in the idiom "(cut) to the quick", meaning to cut someone deeply - usually emotionally.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut_to_the_quick https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_the_quick

Take it back further, and it's cognate with bíos in ancient Greek, whence the prefix bio-.

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Re:Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedis... by ithkuil on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:19AM (#9111721)
In Croatian "Quicksilver" is called "Živa", which also means "alive".
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Re:Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedis... by V-2 on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:59AM (#9111968)
same in Polish ("żywe srebro"). eg. http://www.filmweb.pl/film/%C5%BBywe+srebro-1986-9031
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