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Re: I have been waiting my entire career to use that word in a technical context.
Subject:Re: I have been waiting my entire career to use that word in a technical context. From:"Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> To:"Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> Date:Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:57:13 -0800
On Thu, March 8, 2012 7:39 am, Peter Neilson wrote:
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> Defenestrate means "to toss [someone] out the window" rather than to
> remove the window or windows.
Yeah. It always seemed to me that DEfenestration would be to remove
windows, whilst tossing OUT or THROUGH a window would be EXfenestration or
TRANSfenestration.
--Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
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