Like, in real life, execute doesn’t mean to start, it means to stop…
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/execute
“Execute” primarily means “carry out”, not “kill”. The latter definition is an adaption from the person designated to carry out the act of killing people for violating the law, which presumably at one point was done directly by the hereditary executive.
So, if there was any actual consistency to the English language, giving birth would mean the same as executing a new person…?
It used to be both definitions before modern morals and medical practices.
execute doesn’t mean to start, it means to stop…
No?
First Known Use 14th century, in the meaning “to carry (something) out fully : to put (something) completely into effect”
Interesting, thanks for the info and link.
So the next time I meet a woman that recently gave birth, I can confidently congratulate her for executing a new human!
Executing the birthing process, not executing the new human.
Like how you stir batter, not pancakes.
Ok, I’m still trying to understand here…
According to a number of other comments, execute basically means to complete a process. So, isn’t the pancake the executed final product? Isn’t the baby?.. 🤔
English is so fucking confusing 🤷
This is not exclusive to English in the slightest. Words meaning something in one context and something else in another context is pretty universal to languages in general.
When we say they were executed, we mean the process happened to them.
But they are not executed, they are dead. They were executed, like a ball was kicked to score a goal.
So if the woman has to yeet the baby to execute the birthing process, why is there no goal post?
That is because birth is more like a handoff in US football than kicking a field goal.
Wait wait…
You folks don’t have a kicker? Well how do you start the baby then?
It means perform a process. Starting, middle, and completion. “Carry out” may be a better way to put it because it typically is used for the act of making a law or order happen, not for some natural act like giving birth. This is why many governments have an executive branch that carries out the laws made by the legislative branch.
It became used for the act of killing a prisoner because it was executing the legal order for them to receive the death penalty. It became used for running a program because the processor executed the “instructions” which is what they called lines of code.
You ever heard the phrase: “Worked well in theory not execution”?
Yes, that refers to life imprisonment.
Poorly executed doesn’t mean they had to slowly hack through someone’s head because the guillotine was blunt lol
The original usage was to carry out (a command). In that original sense it was the sentence, rather than the prisoner, who was executed; but the meaning got transferred over time.
In earlier days of computing people first became accustomed to computers “executing” the “instructions” they’d been programmed with. By the time anything resembling today’s software executables came along that was the established word for the thing computers did.
Weird bait
The first definition of ‘execute’ on Merrium Webster is this:
To put into effect; carry out.
Which seems very in keeping with running a software command.
Got to consider context. Whatever you do, do not look up the definition of “set”, or “run”.
I couldn’t help myself, and now I can’t figure out how numbers play volleyball and why applications need to jog.
Transitive verb
- To put into effect; carry out.
- To perform; do: synonym: perform.
So to execute a program is to start as execute a human is to…? 🤔
Even if you don’t accept the transference of a meaning from a euphemism to its own verb, you’re surely not confused by other verbs that have multiple meanings.
When I “order” a hamburger, I’m not telling it to do anything.
Some words even mean the opposite of themselves sometimes.
It is what it is.
I ordered my last hamburger to stop choking me.
When it comes to word salads, I tent to tell everyone the same thing…
“I have the right to wipe my ass with a pinecone, but that doesn’t mean its the right thing to do.”
Can you try that again? I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
I don’t know any other way to say that, perhaps read over my quote a few times and think about it a bit… 🤷
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Oh, I get it. Reading comprehension issue on your end.
Let me slow it down for you, champ, and then I’m out of this conversation, since you decided to turn dick about it.
YOU NO GET BIG CONFUSE WHEN OTHER WORD MEAN TWO THING.
ORDER MEAN TELL SOMEONE DO SOMETHING, AND ALSO REQUEST BUY SOMETHING!
CONTRONYM LIKE SANCTION MEAN APPROVE AND DISAPPROVE AT SAME TIME!
Hope that helped. Respond if you want, but you’re talking to yourself from here on out, buddy.
NO HABLA JIBBERISH!
Haha, have a good day mah dude 👍
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Is to carry out a death sentence.
You have to understand the impact of euphemism, hypocrisy and modesty to language.
Example : at one point it was seen as obscene to talk about copulation, coit and fornication. So, for the houses where the king approved fornication, they simply created a modest acronym F.U.C.K. (short for : Fornication Under King’s Consent) that later became itself seen as (of course) obscene.
Similarly at one point, long ago in history, it was seen as rude to tell a guard// servant// soldier to kill someone else and the euphemism chosen at the time was to say “execute” meaning “carry on” without saying what was to be carried on.
This word “execution” is being increasingly seen with that later “capital punishment” meaning … this might be telling something of our preoccupations and/or obsessions.Yeah that acronym for fuck has no basis in any historical record
Example : at one point it was seen as obscene to talk about copulation, coit and fornication. So, for the houses where the king approved fornication, they simply created a modest acronym F.U.C.K. (short for : Fornication Under King’s Consent) that later became itself seen as (of course) obscene.
I believe that theory has been debunked and ‘fuck’ is from low German, meaning ‘to strike’.
Next you’ll tell me “kangaroo” isn’t an aboriginal word for “I don’t understand.”
Maybe you are right about the origin of fuck. Yet, I do believe language tend to be modified over time in the way I (tried to) described above.
