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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because I'm also that guy: both are correct.

It's true that you should only used hanged to refer to hanging a person, but it's not incorrect to use hung in that case.

Source 1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged

Source 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends if you mean 'he suspended himself from a rope' or 'he comitted suicide'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I don't, I care about the language as it exists today.