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:

....
>
> 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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