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minus-squareJinFox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 months agoBeing french, defenestration is a word that is somehow common knowledge and this amaze me.
minus-squareSnowMeowXP@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoI only learned about it from Magic the Gathering :)
minus-squaresundray@lemmus.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago“Pay 2 black, 1 colorless, throw your opponent’s hand out the window.”
minus-squarepalordrolap@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months 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).
Being french, defenestration is a word that is somehow common knowledge and this amaze me.
I only learned about it from Magic the Gathering :)
“Pay 2 black, 1 colorless, throw your opponent’s hand out the window.”
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).