strangled

[Scot LaFaive]

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> Understanding that this does not mean merely  that the strangulee was
> choked at, say, the bus terminal.


When I hear "terminally choked" I picture the person being choked by the bus
terminal...maybe it fell on the person's neck...

Scot

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:

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> Understanding that this does not mean merely  that the strangulee was
> choked at, say, the bus terminal.
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> At 7/2/2009 09:45 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> >i suspect that many people are inclined to discriminate transitive
> >"strangle" (normally conveying an endpoint) from transitive "choke
> >(not necessarily conveying an endpoint).
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> In other words, "strangled" generally means "terminally choked".
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> Joel
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