A good conversationalist is a rare occurrence. There is an error that the tongue is perfectly suspended only by a fool, a sage, on the contrary, is silent. Such a point of view somehow compromises the public lectures beloved by the people, which have now gained unprecedented popularity. And smart people read them. And most importantly, they find in the listeners a kind of interlocutors. We’ll talk about the last word today.
Value
In this case, you can even play with words and say that the value of the interlocutor is difficult to overestimate. For example, a man is sitting in line and he wants to pass the time to death somehow, but he did not take the books. The reader thinks: “What about the phone ?!” In our example, there is no phone either. And here he turns up to one who is also bored to death, and our two comrades start an informal conversation, which can end with a long friendship, and if not, then at least the turn of both will go unnoticed.
And this if we talk about non-linguistic meaning. And to find out the meaning of the word "interlocutor", we will open an explanatory dictionary: "He who participates in the conversation." Yes, everything is obvious to the simple. But the most interesting thing is not this, but that the noun “conversation” has two meanings:
- Conversation, exchange of views.
- A kind of popular report, usually with an exchange of views, an interview.
And if we knew about the first meaning, then the second came as a surprise to us. There is no problem with the last noun in the definition, for who will surprise you with an interview now? But what is this “popular report"? This is a mystery. Probably, what is now called “communication” at school and university was previously a “conversation”, but this is only a guess. One way or another, a good conversationalist is a rare bird.
There are no synonyms
The case when a word refuses to relate to someone. And rightly so, because this once again indicates its uniqueness. We could cite what we found in the dictionary, but believe me: such replacements will not satisfy the reader, because they are not much different from the object of study. Given the fantastic synonymy of the Russian language, the very presence of words without substitutions speaks volumes. It would be possible to expand the discussion about eternal values, about unique phenomena, but let us leave this to the reader. Maybe he wants to write an essay about this himself or to have a conversation with someone (in the second sense of the word). And next in line is an interesting phenomenon. But one thing is certain: a pleasant interlocutor is one who is difficult to replace.
Travel companion effect
This is the case when someone who is close becomes a good conversationalist. Of course, we could recall our example with a queue, but here it does not work. It is better to take the classics of the genre - long-distance train passengers. Imagine, we find ourselves in a confined space with completely random people, and we need to somehow settle in this place, at least for the duration of the trip from point “A” to point “B”. Since there is nothing to talk about, because we see people for the first time, we begin to talk about ourselves. Moreover, we reveal such details that even psychoanalysts dream of. The main question is why this happens.
And the main reason is that we will never see our companions again, so the likelihood that everything said will be used against us is negligible. And when people get a taste, they pronounce their nature to the bottom. The long-distance train is such a space where people do not use the stop-crane of their own complexes, and the word "interlocutor" takes on a magical and mystical meaning. By the way, such relationships rarely end in friendship, for such a strategy contradicts the very idea of the travel companion effect. Why start a relationship with those who know about a person even more than himself? Perhaps this situation will never happen on the wheel of fate. In other words, whatever one may say, but for a long relationship there is no foundation here, and the presence of compromising material is very disturbing. And we hope that the reader understands that in such a situation, a good conversationalist is someone who speaks as little as possible, but non-verbally shows an interest in the conversation.