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Conversation that put on a blazer and demanded to be taken seriously.
means Extended discussion or debate on a topic, especially the way a society collectively talks about an idea.
from From Latin discursus, a running about — discurrere, to run back and forth — which is exactly what arguments do.
Online lifeNow mostly means a Twitter pile-on with footnotes.
FoucaultMade it mean systems of power deciding what can be said.
Verb formTo discourse is to talk at length, often unprompted.