c/lemmyshitpost · by stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 194d

What's that word?

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Ilikeblankets@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 194d (12 replies)

Defenestration ?

Patrikvo@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 194d (8 replies)

Which has a very bad reputation. Yet 99.9% of it involves fresh air, great views, a sense of freedom only birds know and people still only focus on that 0.1% at the end.

ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 194d (2 replies)

Falling/getting thrown out of the window doesn’t suck. Stopping and landing does

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 194d

Well then don't land. Are people stupid?

kboy101222@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 194d

I mean, it won't kill you, but it definitely would suck

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 194d

Right? And you know it must be fun because all the Russian Oligarchs seem to die from it whenever Putin needs money!

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 194d (3 replies)

For some reason I seem to recall it being associated with ending rich people.

Probably why it gets a bad rep

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d (2 replies)

It’s the number 1 cause of death by Russian Oligarchs, number 2 being polonium poisoning. Weird huh?

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 194d (1 reply)

Ooh, I'm not caught up on my Russian oligarch lore.

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

It seems a lot of them fall out of windows after they piss off Putin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 194d

correct! extra point if you didn't look that up

wolfrasin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 194d

When emperors embrace tradition

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 194d

Wikipedia has an article with some historical examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

unknown1234_5@kbin.earth · 49 pts · 194d (9 replies)

defenestration

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 194d (6 replies)

Always thought it was weird that English has a word specifically for throwing someone out of a window.

NABDad@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 194d (1 reply)

According to Wikipedia, the term was in use in other languages before it was taken in English

Defenestrations of Prague

EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d

Yep!! It’s actually an interesting little story behind the word.

Noodle07@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 194d (3 replies)

It's because it's French

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 194d (1 reply)

It's weird that any language does, really.

db2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

It's French. Guillotine was already taken.

chuckleslord@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 194d

No, it's Latin.

stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d

yep

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

that's only when it happens in czechia

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 25 pts · 194d (3 replies)

Sudden Russian Death Syndrome.

Putin's Promotion.

stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d (2 replies)

wait really

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 194d (1 reply)

I mean, these are pretty specific to Russian journalists/dissenters being killed by the state (the KGB really enjoys defenstration over there), but yeah.

stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d

oh ok that's neat

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 193d (2 replies)

$defenestration \ 1. An act of throwing someone or something out of a window. \ 2. The act of throwing (something or someone) out of a window. \ 3. The act of throwing something, or someone, out of a window. \ 4. High profile removal of a person from an organization. \ 5. The act of removing the Microsoft Windows from a computer in order to install an alternative one. \ 6. The act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition$