# Ejaculations? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041 "2004-04-03T07:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sisyphus\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sisyphus\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sisyphus_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/1 "2004-04-03T07:42:04Z")
No, this is not an attempt to produce a high views-to-replies ratio with a potentially salaciously spicy thread title! My parents tell me that there was a once-studied member of the class, parts of speech called the ejaculation. I’m told that an ejaculation is an outburst, seemingly spontaneous, of a word or phrase which, even with a verb or a noun-subject, is considered a sentence and punctuated by an exclamation point (!). They mention such ejaculations as ‘Pshaw!’ and ‘Damn and blast!’ and ‘Pfiddle!’ Has the non-coarse-language ejaculation died the death of an artform confined by the informality and freedom of an evolving English language fed by the voracious gods of the off-the-shelf entertainment industry? ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/2 "2004-04-03T07:45:58Z")
You “English” speaking people are funny!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/3 "2004-04-03T08:00:42Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > Has the non-coarse-language ejaculation died the death of an artform confined by the informality and freedom of an evolving English language fed by the voracious gods of the off-the-shelf entertainment industry? _ **BALDERDASH!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/4 "2004-04-03T08:04:54Z")
\*“Intercourse is _talking_?” \* he ejaculated. “Yes,” I replied. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/5 "2004-04-03T08:45:55Z")
Read some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s earlier stuff. Watson ejaculates all over Holmes on every other page. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/6 "2004-04-03T08:50:28Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Read some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s earlier stuff. Watson ejaculates all over Holmes on every other page. Now THAT made me laugh! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/7 "2004-04-03T10:44:20Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > No, this is not an attempt to produce a high views-to-replies ratio with a potentially salaciously spicy thread title! > > Has the non-coarse-language ejaculation died the death of an artform confined by the informality and freedom of an evolving English language fed by the voracious gods of the off-the-shelf entertainment industry? Please. Nonsense! What-_ever_! I think they’re more commonly called _interjections_ nowadays, and are still most definitely in regular use. Now, is any else playing that Schoolhouse Rock song in their heads with the words switched? Eeee-jac-ulations! For excitement! And emotion!.. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/8 "2004-04-03T17:42:45Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Eeee-jac-ulations! For excitement! And emotion!.. Great thread title or great sig-_you_ decide. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/9 "2004-04-03T21:30:23Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Now, is any else playing that Schoolhouse Rock song in their heads with the words switched? So when you’re happy…Yaay! Or sad…Aww. Or frightened…Eek! Or Mad…Rats! An ejaculation sure does say it well. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/10 "2004-04-03T23:43:02Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > \*“Intercourse is _talking_?” \* he ejaculated. > > “Yes,” I replied. 😃 Once on “Up All Night” Dave Attell was talking with some guy in bar (believe it or not) and the guy said something like “We are having intercourse right now.” Dave said “Am I on top?” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/11 "2004-04-03T23:51:47Z")
> [@cichlidiot](#): > > So when you’re happy…Yaay! Or sad…Aww. Or frightened…Eek! Or Mad…Rats! An ejaculation sure does say it well. So does a huge spurt a semen shot from the penis. ---
**Author:** ![Seldon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/12 "2004-04-04T00:04:42Z")
Laughing too hard here. Reminds me of a teacher I once had–always said if we were talking too much we had diarrhea of the mouth. So, by that logic, if we use these expressions, do we have ejaculation of the mouth? ---
**Author:** ![Thingol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Thingol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thingol)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculations/238041/13 "2004-04-08T00:12:51Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > Has the non-coarse-language ejaculation died the death of an artform confined by the informality and freedom of an evolving English language fed by the voracious gods of the off-the-shelf entertainment industry? Confined by informality and freedom?