I Did A Word This Week :D · 2:17pm Oct 20th, 2016
Defenestration.
A word brought up in computer class as we sat around doing our work my friend turned to me and said, “You know there is a word for throwing things or people out of a window right.”
With interest tickling I turned to him with doubt and said, “really? What is this word?”
And he said, “I don't know but google does.”
So we took to our computers and typed, ‘word for throwing some thing out of a window,’ and a the results came up with, ‘word for throwing something out of a window.’ I dutifully clicked on it and immediately clicked on the first link afterwards showing the word we had been looking for.
Defenestration: De(laten: out. Fenestrate: window) The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
I was amazed and he felt proud of himself. Then two of our friends sitting behind us turned around to see what we were laughing about and they too became amazed. We then started to talk as our programming was already finished and we had only ten minutes left on campus.
We came up with funny phrases using the word like this, “Say you’re talking to Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and you ask, ‘if you could defenestrate one thing in this nation what would it be.’ Donald trump would say, ‘the mexicans,’ and Hillary would say, ‘the constitution.’”
We soon then began to wonder if there was a word for throwing something out into space. Like an airlock of a kind. So again I took to my computer with three classmates looking over my shoulders I typed, “Word for throwing something-,’ me spelling it correctly this time, ‘-out into space.’
Nothing came up and they shrugged in disappointment already having given up, but not me. I was determined. So again I took to google search bar having remembered that both roots of Defenestration were of Latin origin. So I typed in, ‘Latin for space.” And what came up was Locus. And smashing De and Locus we came up with Delocustrate (De: out. Locus: Space) The act of throwing someone or something out into space.
I did a word. I coined a word, and had become a hero amongst my friends and when I had told my lang teacher this next period, she cried laughing and gave me an A++ as a final grade and I went home knowing that I did a word.
Delocustrate.
A little funny story for all those who follow and if I haven’t said earlier then thanks. Continue to read as a chapter upload for Hexers will be coming Monday. I’ll see you until then.