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Nitpick - there shouldn't be a way to be non-fatally electrocuted. However, the language has been vandalised to the extent that electrocution (literally executi
by alvah 3y ago
Nitpick - there shouldn't be a way to be non-fatally electrocuted. However, the language has been vandalised to the extent that electrocution (literally execution by electricity) now means the same as electric shock.
- keepamovin 3y agoHmmm, it seems perfectly fine to me. I touched a live wire that had contacted water in a carpet at a hotel room threshold, and I got "electroucted" but it was just a small "electric shock". I was fine (but, erm, nonplussed and well-learned). To what etymological root are your referring when you impose your "electrocuted must be fatal" dictum? :) haha :)
- alvah 3y agoif you didn't die, you weren't electrocuted, you weren't anything-cuted.
- keepamovin 3y agoReally, that's the word??? You know, this is the Internet, so I'm gonna need to see some sources, haha! :)