Just hilarious, Bob. Isn't it the truth? I can understand Facebook keeping people in touch, but I really can't understand Twitter where the messages seem so trite. Each to his or her own, I guess.

I've not been on Twitter - but if the banality of the conversations is as suggested I don't think I'll bother.

I seems to be a fact that most conversations are rather banal - be they online or in the pub.

Is the converse of a conversation a proversation?

Asa, who prefers his twitters coming from birds

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Is the converse of a conversation a proversation?

Only if it contains proverbs (as opposed to converbs).

When did people start to "conversate", instead of "talk"?

Somebody I know says, "I don't twitter. I often twitch, but I don't twitter."

That says it all for me.

Wordmatic

Converse is a brand of athletic shoe. Does Twitter smell as perverse as Converse?

Perverse is the limerick game

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
When did people start to "conversate", instead of "talk"?

1973

Amazing. I thought it was more recent than that.

I didn't know conversate is an actual word. Have you heard it is used? The sources I read said it was slang.

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
I didn't know conversate is an actual word. Have you heard it is used? The sources I read said it was slang.

Slang words are still words. There's a blog called Conversate is not a word, which ironically plays sound files of many examples of the word conversate - or at least it used to.

That was an interesting site. I just got caught up in doing a quiz to see "How Dumb are You?" I got all done (fun questions!), and they wanted my name, address, and phone number before I could get my results. Of course I wasn't about to give that, so I quit. Too bad because I would have liked to have seen my results!

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they wanted my name, address, and phone number before I could get my results. Of course I wasn't about to give that, so I quit.

Couldn't you lie?

Yes, I could have, I suppose. That's why I am not good on the Internet. I am not a good liar.

I really wanted to know how dumb I am though. It was one of those quizzes where all the questions were trick questions.

I just tried, but they could tell I was lying. Oh well. I probably don't want to know how dumb I am anyway!

At least you're not dumb enough to fall for their ploy.

I stumbled on this thread and it led me to this one.