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
тАЬDonтАЩt you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime* literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgottenтАжтАЭ
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.
My father, gone now, taught me that men always walk on the outside, say on a sidewalk, or boulevard, for that very reason. In the age of chivalry, I guess, chamberpot liquids hurled out windows and women trussed up in bonnets and layers of petticoats with whalebone stays. No Whirlpool or GE or dry cleaning either, so easier on the servant class. A kind of trickle down (so to speak) compassion, inadvertent but real.
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
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.
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
тАЬDonтАЩt you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime* literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgottenтАжтАЭ
- Syme talking to Winston. 1984, George Orwell
So things are pretty much Double Plus Ungood.
For example *gender*.
A long time ago it referred to the tense of a noun: actor / actress, steward / stewardess ... uzw.
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.
perfenestration - passing through a window
defenestration - being dropped from the window you perfenestrated
refenestration - returning to the window from which you were defenestrated
infenestration - crawling in through the window to which you were refenestrated
effenestration - being thrown back out the window you infenestrated
affenestration - being thrown at a window
confenestration - merging with the window at which you were affenestrated
diffenestration - peeling off the window with which you were confenestrated
The creation of new words to circumvent intellectual or ideological barriers is the hallmark of a superior intellect.
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.
My father, gone now, taught me that men always walk on the outside, say on a sidewalk, or boulevard, for that very reason. In the age of chivalry, I guess, chamberpot liquids hurled out windows and women trussed up in bonnets and layers of petticoats with whalebone stays. No Whirlpool or GE or dry cleaning either, so easier on the servant class. A kind of trickle down (so to speak) compassion, inadvertent but real.
Das Fenster is German for The Window.
affenestration ought to work, if we ever need one.
I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
Defenestration is so apparently so common there is not just one, but two, defenestrations of Prague!
The defenestrations of Prague
Gormful - wise or full of wisdom and common sense.
See, it's easy.
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
Wow. TIL...
I'm not getting into this battle...you'll smoke me
Pluralize it!
Dang it I forgot the S
Too much Scrabble playing here!