
and immolations
I want the world to know that you're making films with bees
Defenestrations
and big fat asians
I'm going to pat your head and cover you in ghee.
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:15,
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I want the world to know that you're making films with bees
Defenestrations
and big fat asians
I'm going to pat your head and cover you in ghee.

is a good word. Cant believe there is a specific word for something so uncommon as being thrown through a window...
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:17,
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we learned all about it on a trip to Prague castle.
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:18,
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it's one of those words that must've been introduced in order to stop a profession losing its credibility. i imagine a bunch of historians sitting around going "look, we can't go on calling it 'the prague thing where they threw everyone out of the window,' people will think we're idiots"
see also mathematicians and the word "cardioid." it's "heart-shaped" you nerds!
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:35,
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see also mathematicians and the word "cardioid." it's "heart-shaped" you nerds!

that's fab!
I guess that's along the same lines as 'ovoid'
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:40,
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I guess that's along the same lines as 'ovoid'

fenestration is the arrangement of windows in a building... and not throwing something into a window...
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:21,
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infenestration or interfenestration or something?
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:23,
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One of the few things i remember from french at school
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:26,
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as a linguist the following interests me, though may not interest others.
Most German words come from a different root to English ones. We get many of ours from Latin.
However, the word 'Window' is completely different to the Latin word 'finestra' - which is where the French get their word 'fenĂȘtre'. But the German word is 'Fenster' - one of the few they get from Latin.
In my warped and miserable world, this is an exciting Trufax.
You may now continue as you were.
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:32,
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Most German words come from a different root to English ones. We get many of ours from Latin.
However, the word 'Window' is completely different to the Latin word 'finestra' - which is where the French get their word 'fenĂȘtre'. But the German word is 'Fenster' - one of the few they get from Latin.
In my warped and miserable world, this is an exciting Trufax.
You may now continue as you were.