Thursday, February 26, 2009

Inter Discourse

-Rant

intransitive verb
1 : to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2 : to scold vehemently
transitive verb
1 : to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion

-Discourse

1archaic : the capacity of orderly thought or procedure : RATIONALITY
2: verbal interchange of ideas ; especially : CONVERSATION
3 a: formal and orderly and usually extended expression of thought on a subject
b: connected speech or writing
c: a linguistic unit (as a conversation or a story) larger than a sentence
4obsolete : social familiarity
5: a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that is rooted in language and its concrete contexts (as history or institutions)

Interactive, interconnected, discourse, inter nos.

I think somebody mixed up their prefix in the grammar books.
Would you like to communicate via inter . . .

Well, of course!

Sometime inter vivos.

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