In JR 1998 interview...and I will post it if you need to see it....he refers to the garotte as a "twister". Doesn't sound like someone who doesn't have any notion to what a garrote or countermeasure is. On the contrary....sounds to me like JR is someone that knows an awful LOT about garottes....enough to know that they are called twisters....I didn't even know that, until I read his interview. The below link is very interesting...in SPANISH, a garotte is called a TWISTER. HMMMMM (Maybe John knew how to speak and read Spanish, afterall).
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/garotte
Modern Translations: Garotte
Language Translations for "garotte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.Hungarian
megfojtás (choke, choking, garrotte, smothering, strangling, strangulation),
kivégzés nyakszorító vassal (garrotte),
csavarófa (garrote, garrotte). (
various references)
Indonesian
garrotta (garrotte),
strangolare con la garrotta (garrotte). (
various references)
Pig Latin
garrotear (garrotte),
garrote (defect, Esmarch tourniquet, garrotte, kink, tie, top of shoulder, tourniquet, withers),
floreado (flowery, twirl),
estrangular (choke, emote, garrotte, mug, quell, scrag, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle),
esganar (garrotte, strangle, throttle),
assalto (assault, attack, blow, bout, break in, burglary, flaw, garrotte, mugging, onfall, onset, push, raid, robbery, rush, shock). (
various references)
Spanish
garrote (bludgeon, club, dancer, defect, garrote, garrotte, kink, springer, truncheon, twister), dar garrote a (garrote, garrotte), agarrotar (garrote, garrotte, squeeze tight). (
various references)
Turkish
boğazlamak (butcher, choke, garrote, slaughter, strangle),
boğazlama,
boğazını sıkarak boğma,
boğarak idam etmek (garrote, garrotte),
boğarak idam (garrote, garrotte). (
various references)
Ukranian
страчувати за допомогою гаротти (garrotte),
гаррота (garrotte),
задушення з метою пограбування (garrotte),
задушити з метою пограбування (garrotte). (
various references)
Vietnamese