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I've also seen the term. You've been permanently banned for 12 hours.

Instead of temporarily suspended.

Whatever happened to the word suspended for temporary and ban for permanent and places say permanent with an expiration date.





My favorite one of these is "electrocuted" meaning "to be killed by electricity".

Nobody alive has ever been electrocuted, but you will meet people who claim to have been.


The modern definition includes "injured", so plenty of living people have been electrocuted.



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