Chitchat (n.) is the weather report two strangers file so the elevator ride is survivable.
Chitchat (n.) is how people check whether it is safe to say something real.
Chitchat (n.) is like the hum a machine makes to show it is still switched on.
Chitchat (n.) is two people agreeing to say nothing either of them could be held to.
A Crablike conversation (n.) is a conversation between oneself and the people of whom we write. These modes of engagement take on other spatiotemporal or faunal formations, like the radiality of, say, starfish or sand dollars.
Dialogue (n.) is the perfect conversation: one refraction of the thought, in the partner as mirror; add a third person and the opalescent ether of humanity evaporates.
Dialogue (n.) is the pathway to truth.
Dialogue (n.) is, in writing, not real speech - it's the illusion of real speech.
Dialogue (n.) is a free exchange of ideas and information that may prove to be of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.
A Discussion (n.) is a conversation that believes it is a sport
A Discussion (n.) is like a game of catch that stops being one the moment somebody throws to win.
A Discussion (n.) requires that at least one person be willing to leave holding a different opinion.
Discussion (n.) is distinguished from argument in this: discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.