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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:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> To:"Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> Date:Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:55:30 +0000
Transfenestration would have be traveling from one window another.
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Subject: Re: I have been waiting my entire career to use that word in a technical context.
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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