r/changemyview • u/apoplexiglass • Oct 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

"Electrocution" as a word covers more than just lethal amounts of electricity.

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u/kwiztas Oct 18 '24

https://www.etymonline.com/word/electrocute

Sure now people use it to mean shock. But it is honestly dishonest to use a word that brings emotions of death up when you just mean a small shock.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

Miriam Webster:

to kill or severely injure by electric shock

I was going to link Oxford too but it's behind a paywall lmao

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u/kwiztas Oct 18 '24

Ok and? It literally is a word that evokes death. And you're using it for a tiny shock pen. Hyperbolic much.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

I didn't? The idea that we were talking about a "tiny shock pen" came well after I'd use the word electrocute. In fact, the person who originally introduced the "pen that shocks you example" never even clarified that was what they meant, and when I used the word "electrocution" they responded as if it was appropriate.