Re: Great Debian experience
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 23:18:09 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
> >
> > Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > fenestral hordes.
> >
> > I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
> > more proper to use the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In
> > anatomy, this would apply to 'having perforations, apertures
> > suggesting perhaps of having been buggered.
>
> Yes - but I was not talking doctor-speak, which is a language all
> of itys own. I am quite happy that fenestral means _exactly_ what
> I intended it to mean! And it was certainly "proper" to use it in
> that way. In architecture it is fenestrated that would mean having
> holes!!
>
> From Wiktionary:
> Adjective
> fenestral (not comparable)
> (architecture) Relating to a window or windows.
>
> Adjective
> fenestrated (comparative more fenestrated, superlative most
> fenestrated)
> (architecture) Having windows
>
> From Collins 20C dictionary - more my own era ;-) -
>
> fenestrated - .....pierced, perforated ...
>
> > Deo Soli Debianae Invicto Seculari
>
> While we are correcting each other, Liddle and Scott prefers
> saeculari. You must be American!
>
> Lisi
Now how did that thread get broken??? Sorry, folks. I'll try to
repost it to the correct place.
Lisi
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