OT- Word of the day.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I opened up the dictionary to look up the definition of defeniwhatit. New word: Bathysphere: A spherical diving bell equipped with windows for deep sea observations.

Dictionary doesn't have defenestrate.

[ July 15, 2004, 10:15: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Randallw]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:


Dictionary doesn't have defenestrate.

ah well then you need more clues. As I said it happens in action movies and westerns. Die hard is an action movie where it happened. It seems every time a fight breaks out in a bar it happens.

[Kamog]

Well, I remember the word defenestrate from a book I read. It means to throw out the window. So in a fight, somebody picks up a guy and throws him out the window.

[David E. Gervais]

Threads like this discombobulate me. But I'm a trooper, so I'll join the fun none the less.

Cheers!

edit: P.S. This word of the day thing is nice, but it would be even better if the word was used in a sentance to show that it can be used in more than just a 'list of ingredients'.

[ July 15, 2004, 11:37: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Alneyan]

We have the same word in French (with a spelling variation, but that is to be expected), so this word likely comes from a foreign language, and hence isn't present in all English dictionaries, or something along these lines. And French has probably borrowed it from somewhere else as well (from what I can tell, "fenestra" is the latin for "window").

But this wasn't quite exactly a thread for etymology, and so I will stop digressing. I shall now leave the literati to debate about these strange words. (Literati has a nice ring to it, but I cannot think of something better than this one to bring to the thread)

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Scrabble player?! Kewl! Can't find anyone who can handle me in my circle of friends. Be nice if there was an Online place to play Scrabble and have some fun!

There is. Right here. It is Yahoo Literati. It is scrabble just without the scrabble name. My mom used to play all the time. It is alot of fun.

[Randallw]

Yes I find if you know a bit of latin you have a vague idea of what romance words are. a large proportion of english is stolen from french (albeit a thousand years ago) almost the rest is germanic (which I mostly know from military study) and the rest are words the empire stole from anyone they conquered.

edit: just realised I am doing what Alneyan warned of, turning this into a etymological discussion.

[ July 15, 2004, 14:38: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[spoon]

Ragnarok said:

There is. Right here. It is Yahoo Literati. It is scrabble just without the scrabble name. My mom used to play all the time. It is alot of fun.

Here is a Online scrabble site mentioned on slashdot today...

Scrabble!