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word cafefully chosen
-> reference to cafe curtains for all those windows you're sneaking through?
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"Adfenestration & defenestration" in Miller's Tale
Dear Faldage: My point was that the miller's wife and her boyfriend did not "throw" their posteriors out of the window, they "exfenestrated" them to be osculated.
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>word cafefully chosen
-> reference to cafe curtains for all those windows you're sneaking through?
oops... that should have read "carafefully chosen", as from a jeroboam of california's finest.
8-)
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The short version: I once escaped from a motorcycle gang by jumping out of a window at a bar.
Mem'ries .....
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Go to almost any brick and mortar workplace and you will find plenty people orking cows.
Especially Orkney Island cows?
This reminds me of the hilarious story of Clancy the brick mason, but I can't find it anywhere. Do any of you people who are whizzes at looking things up know where to find it?
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It would be redundant. In fact, it would be a pleonasm (one of my favourite words). The first time I heard the word the example given was, "surrounded on all sides."
1. Gram. and Rhet. The use of more words in a sentence than are necessary to express the meaning; redundancy of expression (either as a fault of style, or as a figure purposely used for special force or clearness); with a and pl., an instance of this, or the superfluous word or phrase itself.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 82 Pleonasmus, where, with words seeming superfluous, we doe increase our reasons, as thus, With these eares I heard him speake it. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. (Arb.) 264 The first surplusage the Greekes call Pleonasmus, I call him (too full speech) and is no great fault. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God (1620) 15 Some thinke the preposition ep¬ to be here a Pleonasme+and that rjopo| and ˇp¬rjopo| is all one. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 12, I require a favourable censure of all faults omitted, harsh compositions, pleonasms of words, tautological repetitions, &c. 1681 R. Wittie Surv. Heavens 28, I take it to be a Pleonasm, a Figure frequently used in Scripture. 1741 Warburton Div. Legat. II. 556 The genius of the Hebrew tongue, which so much delights in pleonasms. 1860 Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxiv. 45 What the energetic pleonasm of our ancestors denominated ‘a false lie’.
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Hey, I just noticed, I'm now a journeyperson!
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how many of you have actually® adfenestrated?Akshully® on the odd occasion when I have mislaid my house key but not my extension ladder 
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I once escaped from a motorcycle gang by jumping out of a window at a bar.Aha! suidefenestration. The very thing!
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how many of you have actually® adfenestratedMore times than I care to remember. I must now drag this thread back to things wordy.  When I was learning German, it fascinated me that our Teuton cousins had adopted the Latin word, while English, normally so ready to larcenise Latin, had stuck with a clearly Germanic word in window. Are there any other common examples of German ditching Germanic in favour of Latin, while English preserves the Germanic? Additionally, does that last sentence make any sense?
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