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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“idle chatter” has an in-the-language meaning of “prattle” or “idle talk.” Clearly with the invention of online chat rooms, these words take on a new meaning—refering to a person rather than the activity. Perhaps it is not grammatical incorrect to speak about “an idle chatter” or even “an idle chat,” but I don’t believe these words got juxtaposed by coincidence: I think the existence of a prototype had much to do with it.
James Van PraaghIf chatters do not confirm an idle chatter’s whereabouts and there is not a response from the idle chatter(s) to the Op’s prompting within 2 minutes, ...
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2006 July « Scratchie’s WorldThen again I called this an idle chatter post so I guess I am a part of that group too…. July 13th, 2006 Posted by scratchie | Uncategorized | 10 Comments …
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IdealBB.NET – View PostI thought we could have an idle chat thread, for the quiet moments on the board when no one is thinking about gardening. Tell us a bit about yourself, ...
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PODZINGER RSS ALERT – chatAnd eating includes the axles site it’s not———like frank like it actually has a Wexler and I will form a works like an idle chat with the Bible …
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My Experiences with Web StandardsThe conversation that I have alluded to started out as an idle chat about web development in general. At that point I was doing some early exploratory work …
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perl.com: Reports from YAPC 19100… instead happened upon what apparently started out as an idle chat with Larry and Sean Burke and mjd and a few others, and became this mad informal panel …
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