2y ago

Metaphorically, of course

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Ok. Just gonna pin this comment. Be very careful about jokes that could be interpreted as threats of violence or encouragements of violence. Lemmys rules are quite strict on this issue. Please consider this before posting your comments. Thank you in advance.
- lemmy.world's rules?
- Literally means to throw out a window.
  Y'know... To pull a Putin on your political detractors.
  
  Thats such a zoomer reference. Ancient boomers remember the real defensters
  
  Always seemed like such a strange word. Like, it's such a common thing that English needed a word that specifically means to throw someone out a window?
- You must not be a czech or polish
It's it too much to ask for both?
- In Minecraft.
  
  Apparently this isn't a legal defense any more.
TIL defenestration is a word that exists
- Fun Fact, defenestration is called that bc Fenster or similar are the word for Windows in central european languages.
  It is basically dewindowering someone
  
  Fenestra is the latin word for window. Similar words are used in some latin languages as Italian, catalán or Galician.
  I don't think it would be much used in central Europe, maybe in Romanian, as it also derivated from latin. But I don't think that would be the case for Germanic or slavic languages.
  Edit: just looked it up, seems like some Germanic languages also have the same Latin root for window.
- be the change you want to see in the world :)
- There was a Silicon Valley exec recently murdered by someone who also worked in the industry, which one may count as an "assassination", but this particular incident was personally motivated and not trying to send some sort of big message.
- No attempts _that we know about _
Haha, yea, for sure. looks up defenestrate in a dictionary
Mmh, indubitably.
I'm not taking him to Prague
Both
I think there are a lot more people who deserve defenestration, of both definitions.
i want to deficate on the zucc
Why metaphorically? Invite him to one of those Western town amusement parks where you can have a fake bar fight and throw him through a sugar glass window.
Yep
Tometo, tomato. 🫱

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