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minus-squareJinFox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoBeing french, defenestration is a word that is somehow common knowledge and this amaze me.
minus-squarepalordrolap@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIn fairness, the French word for window being fenêtre helps, especially if you know that ê often represents an older form that was spelled with es instead (which it does here).
minus-squareSnowMeowXP@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoI only learned about it from Magic the Gathering :)
minus-squareSundray@lemmus.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago“Pay 2 black, 1 colorless, throw your opponent’s hand out the window.”
Being french, defenestration is a word that is somehow common knowledge and this amaze me.
In fairness, the French word for window being fenêtre helps, especially if you know that ê often represents an older form that was spelled with es instead (which it does here).
I only learned about it from Magic the Gathering :)
“Pay 2 black, 1 colorless, throw your opponent’s hand out the window.”