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metatalk

noun

Etymology

From meta- + talk.

  1. derived from *dol-✻
  2. derived from *talōną✻ — “to count, recount, tell”
  3. inherited from *talkōną✻ — “to talk, chatter”
  4. inherited from *talkōn✻
  5. inherited from *tealcian✻ — “to talk, chat”
  6. inherited from talken
  7. prefixed as metatalk — “meta + talk”

Definitions

  1. Talk, especially involving academic analysis, about speaking or talking

    Talk, especially involving academic analysis, about speaking or talking; verbal metadiscourse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metatalk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA