Re: OT: Humor: was Re: Profiles (WAS: Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections)

Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> writes:

> Hehe, French does have "défenestrer" in the first sense, but I never heard
> it for the second one ;))) .
Isn't it used in the figurative sense? Spanish has "defenestrar"
as a synonym for "destroying someone's career" or "dismiss
and humiliate publicly" and so on (especially referring to
politicians).

On French "défenestrer", why didn't the word lose the /s/
like "fenêtre"? Is it a matter of stress?


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  http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html
  "The future is all around us, waiting, in moments
   of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.
   No one knows the shape of that future or where it
   will take us. We know only that it is always born
   in pain."  -- G'Kar quoting G'Quon, in "Babylon 5"

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