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To be electrocuted has always meant death, until relatively recently. Because Englishe talking is good not, it now can mean what formerly meant "shocked". I st
by creeble 7y ago
To be electrocuted has always meant death, until relatively recently. Because Englishe talking is good not, it now can mean what formerly meant "shocked".
I still prefer the specificity of death for electrocuted. Keith Relf was electrocuted, if you can still talk about it, you received an electric shock.
Edit: spelling. Make Englyish great again!
- stevula 7y agoSemantic drift is inevitable and has little to do with dumbness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
- TheGallopedHigh 7y agoExactly. French was once considered a bastardisation of Latin