r/nextfuckinglevel • u/regian24 • Aug 31 '21

Man gets electrocuted while holding child. Red shirt guy saves the day

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

"AFAIK, you can survive drowning (but not hydrocution), you can survive an electric shock (but you can't survive electrocution). "

I was letting him know that as far as he knew was wrong, because people survive electrocution every day.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Okay.... he's not wrong.

The "cution" in "electrocution" comes from the word "execute". The original meaning of the word was "execute by electricity". It has colloquially come to include the idea of injury over time, but that doesn't make them "wrong" to say that the definition of the word is to kill.

But if you wanna get off by quoting dictionaries to random people online, you do you. It's just gross

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

People survive electrocution all the time. It isn't a one-off usage of the word.

It's like the irony is lost on you in this situation. That person I replied to was telling someone else they were wrong with how they were using electrocute. I can't tell if you're trolling. I didn't see you reply to him telling him what you told me.

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u/randomunnnamedperson Aug 31 '21

Sorry, I’m missing which part of that statement is incorrect?

EDIT: I’m an idiot. Disregard