Re: Horse Sense

>The word in question is <Aufbruch>, not <Ausbruch>. And as
>anyone familiar with the use of bilingual dictionaries
>should be able to tell you, you ought to be looking up the
>German word, not its English translation.

Indeed, <Abgang> and <Aufbruch> are quite synonymous. Only that the
former stresses the idea "go away," and the latter stresses the idea
"start; get up and get; begin something new; etc."

George