Comment on How do you call a word that is so rudimentary that it can't be defined without being redundant?

• Toast@lemmy.film ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, it certainly did, and that is the way I use it. I have heard people use it in other ways

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  • FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From the Oxford English Dictionary.

    Electrocute (verb)

    to injure or kill someone by passing electricity through their body

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    • Toast@lemmy.film ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am saying that the word had a particular meaning when it was coined. Many people seem to use it for other things, and the dictionary reflects this. It seems odd to mean that a word that is almost nakedly a combination of electricity and execute is used to not mean killed by electricity, but it is the case

      I’m not really sure what your objection is to what I’ve said.

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