"Like Flickr, but without the photos"

[yendi]

That's the slogan for Wordie, a social networking site built around the sharing of vocab words.

Seriously.

I have no idea if there's any real value to the site, but I've joined (as "yendi"). Only work I've added is "defenestrate," as it's the greatest word ever.

Comments

[ladysea.livejournal.com]

I <3 the word "defenestrate". It is the greatest!

I used it in a sentence at lunch the other day. In response to the cranky toddler. My friend had no idea what it meant, so I explained.

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

I like it too, though it "feels" more ablative than dative or perlative in nature, and I have a vague notion that "exfenestrate" conveys certainly the perlative nature more properly.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

I disagree - enucleation is the greatest word ever.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

OT: http://www.slashfood.com/2006/08/06/bacon-ice-cream-is-an-udder-delight/
Bacon ice cream.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine once had listed in their lease agreement "No defenestration allowed", along with a maximum number for various farm animal, "no more than 6 chickens", etc... The apartment was in the middle of a small city and in a nice area... it was weird.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Arachibutyrophobia - the morbid fear of having peanut butter cling to the roof of your mouth. Where there is a need, the word arises...

[yendi]

:-) I read SLashfood pretty regularly, and when that post went up, I informed shadesong that we had to road trip to Delaware.

[yendi]

Hmm. Now i need to check our lease. I hope we're not forbidden from defenestrating.

[yendi]

Hooray for language!

I definitely need to find a way to incorporate that word into a conversation.

[yendi]

It's certainly a good word.

[yendi]

:-)

[yendi]

I've never liked "exfenestrate." It might be more "proper," from a linguistic evolution pov, but language doesn't always flow that way.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

I figured you'd probably already seen it, but just in case. :)

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

It is a great word, definitely.

One thing I wonder though is...

If you can "defenestrate", then it would seem logical that it's also possible to "fenestrate", and if so, what would that involve exactly?

[melvh.livejournal.com]

Breaking & Entering?

[yendi]

*snort*

[wicketbird.livejournal.com]

From my Bio class I remember that fenestrations are openings, for example in the skull, so "to fenestrate" is to create an opening...which I guess is what breaking and entering is, actually.

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

I suppose a brobdignagian curmudgeon might defenestrate an exanimate okapi with a rapacious pendular recursion of his cordovan portmanteau.

[melvh.livejournal.com]

*sings along to Joe Cocker's "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"*