[MrsPeaches]

> If you submerge your hand in mercury you will not get wet.

Tangent: To what extent is that evolutionary? Wetness being a unique feeling could be, that we have evolved a greater sensory capacity to experience water, due to its abundance and importance.

Thus other words for touch (in English) generalise across a variety of sensory experiences (sticky, slimy, hard, etc.) where as wetness is specific to fluids that behave like water.

If I had a point, I guess it would be that maybe wetness is a especially unique experience. I don’t know whether this makes it a better or worse example to use.