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Defenestration and depontification.
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:54 am
by mart
Re-reading Patrick Leigh Fermor's great book - A Time of Gifts. Lots of lovely rarely used words.
Then I remembered there was an example of the first in one of the last episodes of The Sopranos.
This afternoon I was idly watching an Indian movie on tv when both were featured in the space of a few seconds.
Mart
Re: Defenestration and depontification.
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:55 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
Bloody big words but just shows how over bloated the english language really is if you care to go through a dictionary
Which Indians were educated enough to sprout them?
Chief Sitting bull?
Looks like an interesting tale the book you mention
Seeing Western Europe in 1933/34 before all hell broke loose through the eyes on an !8 year old
Re: Defenestration and depontification.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:51 am
by mart
God help the poor kids you teach if they have to suffer your patronising, what a clever dick I am attitude 5 days a week.
Mart
Re: Defenestration and depontification.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:11 am
by Pervert
I love the word "defenestration," but not what it entails. As a kid, I recall it being used on news programmes with reference to Prague.
Re: Defenestration and depontification.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:44 pm
by mart
It was a Bollywood movie.
2 guys fighting in a railway carriage. One gets thrown out of the window and since the train was crossing a river it was both defen. and depont.
Read the book Deuce and the second volume Between the Woods and the Water. Unfortunately the completion of the journey hasn't been published but he's still alive and I bet I'm not alone in hoping he hasn't stopped writing.
Mart
Re: Defenestration and depontification.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:41 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
I see,good old bollywood
He's only 92 and widowed so you'd expect he'd need something to occupy his mind.