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Two monologues that occasionally make eye contact.
means A talk in which two or more people exchange views or argue a point, ideally arriving somewhere by the end.
from From Latin discutere, 'to shake apart, dash to pieces' — built from dis- ('apart') plus quatere ('to shake'). A discussion was originally a smashing or scattering, the sense softening over time from 'break something into pieces' to 'break down an idea into pieces to examine it.' So etymologically, every discussion is a small, civilized act of demolition.
- latin root
- discutere literally means to strike apart
- legal cousin
- same root gives us discussion in old legal debate
- irony
- word for talking it out began as word for violence
- modern drift
- now implies calm, despite its combative roots