I prefer to keep it active, as in, "Who defenestrated that slave."
I did manage to sneak it into an incident report at school when I
specified that student A, for his own amusement, defenestrated student
B. The co-ordinator complained that he'd rather not have to use a
dictionary when reading reports. I replied that as a teacher of
English Literature, he should be familiar with the verb.
Up north where I was born, there was no time for Latinate niceties.
The stock suggestion at the commencement of a serious disagreement
was - "Choose thi' winder."
Andrew Fildes
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On 24/09/2010, at 4:51 PM, Johan Malmström wrote:
> Is that when you look through your broken window, upon a thing lying
> on your front porch and saying; "That thing obviously got
> defenestrated?
>
> As defenstration is the action of throwing someone or something out of
> a window.
>
> / Johan
> 24 sep 2010 kl. 00.37 skrev Andrew Fildes:
>
>> My lust word is 'defenestrated' - don't get many chances with that
>> one. Only once or twice a year.
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 23/09/2010, at 9:27 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>
>>>> I suspect that you mean "procrastinated", Andrew.
>>>
>>> I keep meening to use that word...
>>>
>>> AG
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