28th March 2023, 4:58 AM
(26th March 2023, 10:53 AM)Weltall Wrote: To yeet is to throw or to be ejected, suddenly, with great force and possibly enthusiasm. It's like one of those ultra specific German words that has 68 letters, and describes an extremely specific thing.
I'm quite partial to "defenestrate" myself, which means specifically to throw something through a window, from inside to outside.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)