If they keep censoring long enough the meanings will be inverse...or worse no antonym or synonym.
To eliminate nuance gives the ruler the power of the word to make the rules on what can and can not be said; imprecision is precisely how the totalitarian uses words to name the enemy
After reading Ryan's "no opposite of defenestration" I've been scouring the intertubes for 20 minutes (I mean, what's government funding for, after all) for videos of, as you've nicely named it, refenestration.
The windows don't always have glass! European castles just had open spaces for a long time. I'm envisioning throwing the body back where it came from. Not that that would happen. But your claim was provocative.
defenestration is a word because people used to throw a lot of stuff (including slop and excrement) out of windows. little was thrown in, so we did not develop a word.
there are lost of words that have a negative but no positive.
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It can either mean that you are against defenestration, or you are throwing the object back up through the window. In the case of a person thrown up to a window at a significant height during the Renaissance, it would require a catapult of sorts.
Spot on. I'm gonna like me any post that uses both miscegenation and defenestration.
Never forget 1A is just as important for the listener.
For every person they silence a thousand can not hear.
Draw a picture of that and it's worth a thousand words.
That's what they're after.
Me eldest is OBSESSED with defenestration. She shouts it out every time it comes up. And when you start looking for it, it comes up A LOT.
It's the only word in the English language without an antonym.
Here's another tidbit of language trivia:
What is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel?
Hint it's something we're all going to need in these times.
seems like there are lots of words without antonyms.
what, for example, is the antonym of "carrot" or "nematode."
What I want to know is how did nematode emerge in your brain as an example?!...lol...of all things
Dang it I meant synonym
Meh. Same thing.
If they keep censoring long enough the meanings will be inverse...or worse no antonym or synonym.
To eliminate nuance gives the ruler the power of the word to make the rules on what can and can not be said; imprecision is precisely how the totalitarian uses words to name the enemy
Well I guess unique too
Take out the animal kingdom and food.
No fun!
but also, why can't refenestration be a thing?
After reading Ryan's "no opposite of defenestration" I've been scouring the intertubes for 20 minutes (I mean, what's government funding for, after all) for videos of, as you've nicely named it, refenestration.
It does not appear to be a thing.
So why not "make it so"?
If the left can deliberately, with malice aforethought, redefine half of the bloody dictionary, why can't the (relatively) sane do the same?
I shall make it so.
I don't know. Maybe because if you throw something out a window you can't repair the glass by throwing them back through?
But if it were an odious bureaucrat I'd try to defy reality
Is "odious bureaucrat" not a bit redundant?
And once the odious creature has successfully been defenestrated, why on earth would one ever want to toss it back? Even to fix the window?
Asking for a friend.
The windows don't always have glass! European castles just had open spaces for a long time. I'm envisioning throwing the body back where it came from. Not that that would happen. But your claim was provocative.
defenestration is a word because people used to throw a lot of stuff (including slop and excrement) out of windows. little was thrown in, so we did not develop a word.
there are lost of words that have a negative but no positive.
gormless.
i've never seen gorm or gormful as a positive.
Alright I'm going to shut up now
..;(
only on film I guess, when you turn it backwards
ha ha ha
This whole thread made me feel so much better. I was actually nauseous last night after reading the SCOTUS bull crap. I honestly had a hard time sleeping. Thanks you all! тЭдя╕П
how about antidefenestration?
That's anti-physics Kertch!
It can either mean that you are against defenestration, or you are throwing the object back up through the window. In the case of a person thrown up to a window at a significant height during the Renaissance, it would require a catapult of sorts.
strengths - one vowel.
Bingo
Do I win a prize?
I'll take door number three Monty.
You've won a jar of Turtle Wax.
But I don't own a car.
I'm terrible at these but I am also very curious...
STRENGTH
here's a hard one:
what's the longest english word that is all vowels?
6 letters.
Euouae. It also has the most consecutive vowels
I'm not getting into this battle...you'll smoke me
Pluralize it!
Dang it I forgot the S
"The Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out."
~ Dave Chappelle
Well it might be time to "break glass"....;)
Four years past time, says I.
Well said, Ryan.
Yep. "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." Frederick Douglass