why don't we have this word?

[trochee]

Thanks to an international polyglot mailing list (dorkbot international), I saw a Madrideño write "sorry for the exabrupt."

Thus I learned the Spanish word exabrupto: "sudden outburst, harsh remark".

I am all for English adoption of the word. Apologies for the exabrupt.

Comments

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool word.

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

I agree! Cool word!

[q-pheevr.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with ejaculation? Besides the obvious....

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

I am going to use this word. In that context. Unfortunately I am admitting that I have a need for it on occasion...

[writeanya.livejournal.com]

i'm in!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

oh dude. that word *is* me.

heh.

I am an exaboopt.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

um.
the obvious .
that 's what's wrong with it.
heh.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hah. exaboopt.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

erm, yeah.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out how to get it in as a word of the day in a class...

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

You know why the word doesn't exist ?

because americans are gentle people who have no conflict....

NOT!

oh god, i know you hate these theories.
so i'll stop here.
:)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

er, because anglophones are repressed people who won't even talk about being upset or exabrupting?

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

yup !

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

i am adopting this word, and am planning to be exabruptish just to use it.

[kirinqueen.livejournal.com]

Exabrupt exabrupt exabrupt. I like it. Now let's see if I can use it in the appropriate context. Goodness knows I am known to make such remarks on occasion.