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Hagrinas Mivali
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:03 am
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Jess Askin wrote:
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I noticed that for defenestration, they do not list becoming a Linux or Mac
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Don A. Gilmore
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"Hagrinas Mivali" <remove.to.reply@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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I noticed that for defenestration, they do not list becoming a Linux or
Mac
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....or Prague.
Don
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Peter Moylan
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Don A. Gilmore infrared:
| Quote: | "Hagrinas Mivali" <remove.to.reply@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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I noticed that for defenestration, they do not list becoming a Linux or
Mac
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...or Prague.
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.... or even Ermintrude Grinch.
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:01 pm
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:48:00 -0600, "Jess Askin" <dontbother@nospam.net> wrote:
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So what happened to the other five?
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John O'Flaherty
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:43 pm
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Hagrinas Mivali wrote:
That's 'disfenestration'.
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Hagrinas Mivali
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:09 am
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John O'Flaherty wrote:
| Quote: | Hagrinas Mivali wrote:
Jess Askin wrote:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm
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I noticed that for defenestration, they do not list becoming a Linux
or Mac user.
That's 'disfenestration'.
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True, but defenestration has been used that way tongue-in-cheek. Saying that
I'm removing Windows is less dramatic than saying I'm throwing myself out of
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