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Daniel Rigg

13:48

does ''Blurt out'' mean to say something unintentionally?

CowperKettle

14:44

@DanielRigg yes

Daniel Rigg

@CowperKettle okay,just to be sure,why?

Daniel Rigg

14:56

@CowperKettle hello?

AIQ

15:13

blurt out something: to say something suddenly, and without thinking of the results.

Cambridge.

Daniel Rigg

@AIQ but still means to say something unintentionally?

AIQ

If I say something "unintentionally" that means I did not intend to say that (and most likely that I was not thinking of the results). However, I can say something intentionally but without thinking of the results.

I can say the F-word purposefully to hurt someone (but I may not have thought of them punching me afterwards)

Daniel Rigg

@AIQ then you don't mean blurt means to say something unintentionally?

AIQ

so I would not say blurt out means to say something unintentionally all the time.

Daniel Rigg

@AIQ then it doesn't mean to say something unintentionally?

AIQ

15:19

not all the time and not strictly.

Daniel Rigg

@AIQ no I mean are you saying it doesn't mean to say something unintentionally?

@AIQ why are you saying it doesn't mean to say something unintentionally?

AIQ

I already said it - it does not strictly mean "to say something unintentionally". Something "unintentional" can be blurted out just as something "intentional"

Daniel Rigg

@AIQ what words mean ,mainly and strictly, to say something unintentionally?

skullpatrol

randomly

if you say something randomly you have no reason, right?

@DanielRigg does that^ make sense?

"don't just randomly blurt out an answer"

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol what are other words that mean to say something unintentionally?

skullpatrol

15:34

7 mins ago, by skullpatrol

randomly

Daniel Rigg

I said other words not that only word you said

skullpatrol

haphazardly

aimless.
arbitrary.
careless.

disorganized.
erratic.
helter-skelter.

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol what about ''blurt'' as well?

skullpatrol

abruptly, impulsively

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol but ''blurt'' means to say something unintentionally?

skullpatrol

15:41

not always

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol what do you mean not always?

skullpatrol

To blurt out something is to say something suddenly and without thinking about the effect it will have

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol yes but can mean to say something unintentionally?

skullpatrol

To unintentionally say something is to say something without intention

intention

Noun: intention (countable and uncountable, plural intentions)

The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
(Can we date this quote by Samuel Johnson and provide title, author's full name, and other details?) (but see Apocryhpha)
Hell is paved with good intentions.
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
(obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.

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unintentionally

Adverb: unintentionally (comparative more unintentionally, superlative most unintentionally)

In an unintentional manner; not intentionally.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, chapter V, page 132
"Oh, no! Mason will not defy me; nor knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness."

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol look I'm asking if ''to blurt out'' means to say something unintentionally?

skullpatrol

15:52

''to blurt out'' = "to say it fast"

I blurted out the first thing that came to my mind.

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