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two minds taking turns being right, wrong, and accidentally honest
means A conversation or exchange of ideas between two or more people, whether in real life or written into a play, novel, or film.
from From Greek 'dialogos,' built from 'dia-' meaning 'through' or 'across' and 'logos' meaning 'word' or 'speech' — so literally 'speech going back and forth.' A common myth says 'dia-' means 'two,' but that's a confusion with similar-looking 'di-'; a dialogue can have any number of speakers. It traveled through Latin 'dialogus' and Old French before settling into English.
- greek roots
- means speaking across, not down or at
- socratic method
- questions doing the work of answers
- film truth
- great dialogue rarely says what characters mean
- diplomacy
- the cheapest weapon nations refuse to use
- monologue cousin
- one voice pretending it doesn't need a reply
socratic dialogue — plato's recorded conversations between socrates and athenian citizens in 4th century bce
dialogue between civilisations — un initiative launched 2001 to promote understanding between western and islamic worlds
lincoln douglas debates — seven political debates between abraham lincoln and stephen douglas in illinois, 1858