Changing Lanes: the "Zone" or not?

"vinyl" wrote

No, it means to throw from a window, and yes, it applies to things as
well as people. The historically famous defenestration of Prague, from
EB 2003 CD:
(May 23, 1618), incident of Bohemian resistance to Habsburg authority
that preceded the beginning of the Thirty Years' War. In 1617 Roman
Catholic officials in Bohemia closed Protestant chapels that were
being constructed by citizens of the towns of Broumov and Hrob, thus
violating the guarantees of religious liberty laid down in the Letter
of Majesty (Majestätsbrief) of Emperor Rudolf II (1609).

In response, the defensors, appointed under the Letter of Majesty to
safeguard Protestant rights, called an assembly of Protestants at
Prague, where the imperial regents, William Slavata and Jaroslav
Martinic, were tried and found guilty of violating the Letter of
Majesty and, with their secretary, Fabricius, were thrown from the
windows of the council room of Hradcany (Prague Castle) on May 23,
1618. Although inflicting no serious injury on the victims, that act,
known as the Defenestration of Prague, was a signal for the beginning
of a Bohemian revolt against the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II, which
marked one of the opening phases of the Thirty Years' War.

Theo

 

Should be something about jumping/getting thrown/falling out of a window?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I'd have thought you'd try a bit harder to get your favourite word right.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2 lives on !! no ZX12R yet...

 

When has an Alker-Jones ever done that to you?

I mean, really!!!

Hammo

 

There are no lanes on the footpath...


Postman Pat (Outta the way yukkunz!)

 

Don¹t you mean "Bloody Ford Motor Company"?

Hammo

 

Just a mistyping that escaped through my otherwise pretty perfect 60 wpm
touch writing.

Get over it.

j

 

It means to throw something or somebody out of the window. It stems from the
latin (french) word fenestra, which means window.

Defenestrate is a stem word of defenestration.

See more details here or just google it for more hits.
http://www3.telus.net/defenestrate/meaning.html

It's a pretty cool word. It rolls so easily out of the mouth, leaving
spectators bewildered more often than not with the occasional exception who
thinks it's really cool to hear it in a sentence.

But then I'm just a Norwegian geek.

j

 

Mustn't have quite been "in the Zone" when you typed it.

-----sahrks

 

LOL! Fantastic, thanks for making my morning.

j

 

and accelerate while changing lanes.

Nev..