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. . . CONTEXT see: "MEANING" see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links - Whenever you tear an idea from it's context and treat it as if it were a self-sufficient, independent item, you invalidate the thought process involved. A context-dropper forgets or evades any wider context. He stares at only one element, and he thinks, 'I can change just this one point, and everything else will remain the same.' --Leonard Peikoff (b. 1933) Canadian-born American philosopher. _Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand_ [1991] - Context-dropping is one of the chief psychological tools of evasion. --Ayn Rand (19051982) Russian-born American writer. _The Virtue of Selfishness_ [1964] 'I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose,' said Tan-Chun. 'If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!' --Ts'ao Chan [Pinyin Cao Zhan] (c.17151763) Chinese author. _Hung lou meng_ (Dream of the Red Chamber) ----- truncate (transitive verb) Forms: truncated; truncating To shorten by or as if by cutting off truncation: noun   CONTRADICTION . . see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links Let us never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Journal_ [8 November 1838] When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. --John Gay (16851732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727], "The Elephant and the Bookseller" There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do [...] contradict other philosophers. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. Speech in Boston, Mass. [7 October 1904]. It was one of the rules which, above all others, made Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin the most amiable of men in society, 'never to contradict anybody.' --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to Thomas Jefferson Randolph [24 November 1808]. A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. Attributed in Henry Southgate (ed.) _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 61 [1862, 3rd edition]. There is an eagle in me that wants to soar and there is also a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. --attributed to Carl Sandburg (18781967) American poet. If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. _Androcles and the Lion_ [performed 1912] Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) --Walt Whitman (18191892) American poet. "Song of Myself", st. 51 in _Leaves of Grass_ [1855]. - "New Yorker" cartoon caption, publisher to author: "Come now, Mr Dickens; it must have been either the best of times or the worst of times. It could hardly have been both!" - Cleanliness is next to godliness. Cleanliness is next to impossible. --Charlie Brown, in "Peanuts" I looked in the dictionary. "Cleanliness" is *not* next to "godliness." "Cleanliness" is between "claustrophobia" and "cleavage." --attributed to George Carlin (19372008) American stand-up comedian and author. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Godliness is perfection. Perfection is impossible. Therefore, Cleanliness is next to impossible. - - A word to the wise is sufficient. Talk is cheap. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind. Confession is good for the soul. Keep your troubles to yourself. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Nice guys finish last. Don't believe everything you hear. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Don't judge a book by its cover. Clothes make the man. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Faint heart never won fair lady. The meek shall inherit the Earth. Haste makes waste. Time waits for no man. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Don't beat your head against a stone wall. It's better to be safe than sorry. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Life is what we make it. What is to be will be. Look before you leap. He who hesitates is lost. Many hands make light work. Too many cooks spoil the broth. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Don't cross the bridge until you come to it. Nothing venture, nothing gain. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Opposites attract. Birds of a feather flock together. Seek and ye shall find. Curiosity killed the cat. The pen is mightier than the sword. Actions speak louder than words. The squeaking wheel gets the grease. Silence is golden. You're never too old to learn. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. - ----- belie (verb) [bκ-'LI] To show to be false, contradict, to misrepresent, to give a false impression of. cavil (verb) ['kζ-vκl] To object on frivolous or petty grounds, to quibble. oxymoron (noun) [ahk-see-'mo-rahn] A phrase comprising two mutually contradictory words. Examples: a long brief, the living dead, freezer burn, near miss, old news, pretty ugly, alone together, almost exactly, half naked, jumbo shrimp, holy war, rap music. ;void(0)) CONTRARIANS . . [Professor Wagstaff, (Groucho Marx) :] I don't know what they have to say. It makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it. --"Horse Feathers" [1932 movie] Screenplay by Will B. Johnstone, Bert Kalmar, S.J. Perelman, and Harry Ruby. Those who obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. "Notebook E", Aphorism 11, _Aphorisms_ [17751779] ;void(0)) CONVERSATION . . see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. --Henry Brooks Adams (18381918) American historian & man of letters. _The Education of Henry Adams_, ch. 31 [1907] Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _The Spectator_, No. 169 [13 September 1711] - Debate is masculine; conversation feminine. --attributed to [Amos] Bronson Alcott (17991888) American philosopher, teacher, and reformer; father of Louisa May Alcott. Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. --[Amos] Bronson Alcott (17991888) American philosopher, teacher, and reformer; father of Louisa May Alcott. _Concord Days_ [1872] - The first requirement of good conversation is that nobody should know what is coming next. --Havilah Babcock (18981964) American educator, author, and outdoorsman. "When a Man's Thoughts Are Pure" reprinted in _The Best of Field & Stream_ [2002]. I suppose there are now few survivors among the people who had the delight of hearing Oscar Wilde talk. Of these I am one. I have had the privilege of listening also to many other masters of table-talk Meredith and Swinburne, Edmund Gosse and Henry James, Augustine Birrell and Arthur Balfour, Gilbert Chesterton and Desmond MacCarthy and Hilaire Belloc all of them splendid in their own way. But assuredly Oscar in *his* own way was the greatest of them all the most spontaneous and yet the most polished, the most soothing and yet the most surprising. That his talk was mostly a monologue was not his own fault. His manners were very good; he was careful to give his guests or his fellow-guests many a conversational opening; but seldom did anyone respond with more than a few words. Nobody was willing to interrupt the music of so magnificent a virtuoso. To have heard him consoles me for not having heard Dr. Johnson or Edmund Burke, Lord Brougham or Sydney Smith. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. 1953 letter to Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, as quoted in Joseph Bristow _Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend_ [2008]. When I complained of having dined at a splendid table without hearing one sentence of conversation worthy of being remembered, he said, "Sir, there seldom is any such conversation." Boswell: "Why then meet at table?" Johnson: "Why, to eat and drink together, and to promote kindness; and, Sir, this is better done when there is no solid conversation; for when there is, people differ in opinion, and get into bad humour, or some of the company who are not capable of such conversation, are left out, and feel themselves uneasy. It was for this reason, Sir Robert Walpole said, he always talked bawdy at his table, because in that all could join." --James Boswell (17401795) Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author. _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] (entry of 1776) One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation. Bacon is wiser, Swift more humorous than any person one is likely to meet with; but they cannot chime in with the exact frame of thought in which we may happen to take them down from our shelves. Therein lies the luxury of conversation; and when a living speaker does not yield us that luxury, he becomes only a book standing on two legs. --Thomas Campbell (17771844) Scottish poet. 19 June 1820 entry in _Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell_, ed. by William Beattie [3 vols., 1849]. I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 89 [1891]. The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. --Willa Silbert Cather (18731947) American novelist. _One of Ours_, bk. II, ch. v [1922] - Give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way to convince. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [16 October 1747]. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) In Charles Strachey (ed.) _The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son_ [1901]. - After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. --Chinese Proverb Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Biographia Literaria_ [1817] - Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them very flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCXXXIII [1821 ed.] When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion, and our own improvement; for what we have to say, we know, but what they have to say, we know not. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCXXXVI [1828 ed.] - - Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. --William Cowper (17311800) English poet and hymnodist. _The Task_ [1785] Discourse may want an animated No, To brush the surface, and to make it flow; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. --William Cowper (17311800) English poet and hymnodist. "Conversation" in _Poems by William Cowper_ [2 vols., 1794]. - To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed. --attributed to Democritus of Abdera (c. 460 B.C.c. 370 B.C.) Greek philosopher. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. --Renι Descartes (15961650) French philosopher and mathematician. _Discours de la mιthode_ [1637] (Discourse on Method) I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. --Roddy Doyle (b. 1958) Irish novelist. In John Ardagh _Ireland and the Irish_ [1994]. Repartee [...] is the soul of conversation. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _An Evening's Love_ [ performed 1668; published 1671] Gentlemen; when you *come down* to common-place small-talk with an intelligent lady, one of two things is the consequence; she either recognizes the condescension and despises you, or else she accepts it as the highest intellectual effort of which you are capable, and rates you accordingly. --Mrs E.B. Duffey, in _The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Etiquette_ [1877]. If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end. --Sara Jeannette Duncan (18611922) Camadian journalist and essayist. _The Imperialist_ [1904] - Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_ [1841] "Friendship" The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Considerations by the Way" in _The Conduct of Life_ [1860]. Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization. . . . Conversation is our account of ourselves. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Woman", in _Miscellanies_ [1884]. - How time flies when you's doin' all the talking. --Harvey Fierstein (b. 1954) American dramatist and actor. _Torch Song Trilogy_ [1979] He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the 'No, I didn't; yes, you did' type conversation which, though fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others. --E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (18791970) English novelist. _Howards End_ [1910] Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. --Miles Franklin [Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin] (18791954) Australian writer and feminist. _Childhood at Brindabella: My First Ten Years_ [written 1952-3, pub. 1963] Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. --attributed to Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. --John Gay (16851732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727] Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. --Edward Gibbon (17371794) English historian. _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, vol. 3 [17761788] The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say because they were too obvious. --Andrι Gide (18691951) French novelist and critic; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Entry of 23 August 1926 in _The Journals of Andrι Gide: 19141927_ [1939]. A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Maxims and Reflections_, vol. III [1819] Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. --Fulke Greville (15541628) English philosophical poet. _Maxims, Characters and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral_, XCVIII [2nd ed., 1757] One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. --Helen Hayes (19001993) One of the most popular American stage actresses of the 20th century. _A Gift of Joy_ (with Lewis Funke) [1965] Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. --Alfred Hitchcock (18991980) British-born film director. _Time_ [October 9, 1978] - Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. . . . And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful *urs*. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. "A Rhymed Lesson" [1846] Talking is one of the fine arts the noblest, the most important, the most difficult and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858] It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Poet at the Breakfast-Table_ [1872] - Would you like to learn two simple words that are the key to kicking off conversations? They are the simple words "Tell me." . . . Most people ask closed questions, those that already contain the answer. This relegates the other person to confirming or denying what you just said. After a few of these, the conversation winds down because it has no place to go. "Did you have fun at the dance?" "Yeah." "Did you enjoy the ball game?" "It was okay." End of conversation. . . . From now, start conversations with the words "Tell me." Say "Tell me about the dance." "Tell me what the ball game was like." . . . See the difference? "Tell me" gives people a hook on which to hang a conversation. --Sam Horn _What's Holding You Back?_ [1997] Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. --attributed to Stanley Horowitz Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. --attributed to Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (18681930) American humorist. If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. --Leigh [James Henry] Hunt (17841859) English essayist, critic, journalist, and poet. _Table Talk_ [1851] - It is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ [24 March 1750] I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Entry of 1768 in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than by displaying a superior ability or brilliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him in their hearts. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Entry of 1783 in James Boswell's _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. - - To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] - Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. _Studies In Classic American Literature_, ch. II [1923] A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. A translation of a Chinese proverb in _Hyperion_ [1839]. If you want to talk, first ask a question, then listen. --Antonio Machado (18751939) Spanish poet. Attributed in n Joseph Goldstein _One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism_, p. 66 [2002]. - She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _A Writer's Notebook_ [1949] I do not want to spend too long a time with boring people, but then I do not want to spend too long a time with amusing ones. I find social intercourse fatiguing. Most persons, I think, are both exhilarated and rested by conversation; to me it has always been an effort. When I was young and stammered badly, to talk for long singularly exhausted me, and even now that I have to some extent cured myself, it is a strain. It is a relief to me when I can get away and read a book. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Summing Up_, ch. XIX [1938] - There is, of course, no telling, but the experience of others seems to indicate that marriage inevitably wears out, if not altogether, then at least around the edges. I incline to believe that we'd have survived this letting down without real damage. Marriage is nine-tenths talk, and up to her last illness we were still amusing each other. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. Charles A. Fecher (ed.) _The Diary of H.L. Mencken_ [1990] [Of Susan Sontag:] Her journalism, like a diamond, will sparkle more if it is cut. --Raymond Mortimer (18951980) English writer and critic. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. --Edward R. Murrow [Egbert Roscoe Murrow] (19081965) American broadcaster and journalist. Upon receiving the "Family of Man" Award in 1964. When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. Attributed in William Safire & Leonard Safir _Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice_ [1989]. When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, 'I'll lay my life,' said he, 'somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.' --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. _Laconic Apophthegms_, "Of Plistarchus" - There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. Letter to H. Cromwell, Esq. [28 October 1710]. That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1727] - Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. --Emily Post (18731960) American authority on social behavior. _Etiquette_ [1922], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993]. Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time. --attributed to Ginger Rogers [Virginia Katherine McMath] (19111995) American actress and dancer. Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. --George Sala (18281896) English journalist and illustrator. Attributed in "The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association" [February 1906]. I am not bound to please thee with my answer. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i [15961598] - I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] in _New York Times_ [7 January 1988], "As Someone Famous Probably Once Said. . . ." The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. --attributed to George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. - - That's as well said as if I had said it myself. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Polite Conversation_ [1738] Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. "Hints on Good Manners" - - The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. --William Temple (18811944) English theologian and Archbishop. _The Hope of a New World_ [1940] In conversation, humor is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge; few desire to learn, or think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy. --Sir William Temple (16281699) English statesman and diplomat. Attributed in Tryon Edwards (using pseud. Everard Berkeley) _The World's Laconics..._, p. 52 [1853]. - In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. --Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190159 BC) Roman comic dramatist. _Eunuchus_, line 41 (Prologue) What a good thing Adam had when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Notebook_ [2 July 1867] The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Sept discours en vers sur l'homme_ [1738] Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _De Profundis_ [1905] ----- badinage [bad-n-AHZH], noun: Light, playful talk; banter. confabulation [kon-FAB-yuh-lay-shuhn], noun: Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. deipnosophist [dyp-NOS-uh-fist], noun: Someone who is skilled in table talk. felicitous [fuh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective: 1. Well suited or expressed; appropriate; apt. 2. Pleasant; delightful; marked by happiness or good fortune. germane (adj.) Suitably related to something, especially something being discussed. glib [adj. GLIB] Casual, relaxed, offhand, with a natural feeling. However, the word often carries an unspoken implication that the easy manner is a way of hiding something. implicit (adj.) Implied: not stated, but understood in what is expressed imply (verb) [im-'plI] To indicate by necessary entailment rather than a direct statement; to occur as a logical consequence, as a garage implies ownership of an automobile. It is the antonym of infer; the speaker implies, the listener infers. interlocutor [in-ter-LOK-yuh-ter], noun: Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially. kibitz [KIB-its], verb: 1. To chat; converse. 2. To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others. persiflage (noun) ['pκr-sκ-flahzh] Light, sociable chatter or a superficial, sociable manner of speaking. raillery [RAY-luh-ree] noun: 1. Good-humored banter or teasing. 2. An instance of good-humored teasing; a jest. repartee (noun) Witty talk: conversation consisting of witty remarks riposte, noun: 1. A quick thrust given after parrying an opponent's lunge in fencing. 2. A quick and effective reply by word or act. tendentious (adjective) [ten-'den-chκs] Exhibiting a strong tendency or point of view, overbearingly didactic or partisan. Note: Not to be confused with "tendential" which means simply "relating to a tendency." "Tendential ideas" are those with a decided point of view but not an overbearing one. 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