"Conversation"

Just curious as to what everyone's opinions are on the definition of a conversation.

I don't want Wikipedia or Dictionary.com answers. I want your answers.

Do you think a conversation is only verbally expressed words to someone else or is a thread with replies and some banter on IM a conversation?

 

it need not be mutually understood, can be just discussing an issue which is communicated to one or a set of people.

 

Because they're speaking to each other. They may not be able to understand each other but words are being spoken and heard from both parties.

 

That's still not a conversation. Conversations involve communication... communication implies that some degree of understanding is involved, even if they don't see eye to eye or agree, or if confusion exists, there is still the possibility of ideas being transferred from one person to the next.

By the way, I'm not just talking verbal communication... if you can somehow get your ideas across, with hand gestures or pictures or whatever, then yeah, it counts... but some form of understanding must exist.

If it is just gibberish then it isn't really a conversation.

Edit: Bah, Kerosene typed faster.

-Michael

 

It's the same as if I were yelling n English across a room who couldn't exactly make out what I was saying. That'd still be considered a conversation. I'm communicating with that person, we're talking. If I'm communicating with words to someone, we're having a conversation.

 

I agree with you on this one.

 

Converse is part of conversation. So you can assume that conversation is simply any form of social interaction between at least two parties.

 

Conversation: The things a girl and a boy speak before they had up to the bedroom.

 

My definition of conversation is speech..It doesn't matter if you understand or not, your conversing..if two people start talking to each other and we don't understand ..they are HAVING A CONVERSATION.
You don't have to understand another person to have a conversation.

 

Ok, see? If this guy were making any sense whatsoever he would be participating in this conversation.

Wth do you mean? You have no logic on your statement. At all. It's similar to saying: Auto is part of automobile, so you can assume anything that runs on gas is a car.

Wtf?

-Michael

 

Woah, don't be that harsh on Jerlene.net!

 

a conversion is a exchange between one are more people in which you gather information or exchange information on biological or social means.... you can have a conversion with your self and you can understand people of different languages simply by body lingo. on the other hand gossip is two people talking about a person that is not there. so in my eyes you dont need to understand the person fully in order to agree on what he/she wants done which i would class the true means of conversation. while on the other had you need to speak the same language to have a gossip. if conversation where only spoken how would the deaf communicate?

 

Ummm... one are more people? Exchange on a BIOLOGICAL means??? WTF? LOL!

You can have a conversion with yourself? What, biologically?

I really wish I spoke whatever your native language is, so I could give you some good analogies of what you just actually said.

-Michael

 

Understanding the words would be necessary, but understanding the concepts is not. I could explain quantum physics to a young child, and they would not understand what I was saying, but we would still be having a conversation.

No, that's foreplay...