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The conversational art of finishing someone else's sentence badly, on purpose.
means An instance of breaking into something already in progress — a conversation, a process, a train of thought — and halting its flow.
from From Latin interrumpere, 'to break in between,' built from inter- ('between') and rumpere ('to break, burst'). Rumpere is the same root that gives English 'rupture,' 'corrupt,' and 'erupt' — all words about things violently giving way. So an interruption is, at its root, a small rupture: a break shoved into the middle of something that was whole.
- brain lag
- takes 0.2 seconds to realize you cut in
- gender myth
- studies show both sexes interrupt equally in power roles
- productivity cost
- takes 23 minutes to refocus after one
- toddler specialty
- average kid interrupts every 2 to 3 minutes