Argue vs Chatterati - What's the difference?
argue | chatterati |
(obsolete) To prove.
To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
To have an argument, a quarrel.
To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
People who chat, argue and debate.
* 2002, Annabelle Sreberny, “Trauma talk,” in Journalism After September 11, Barbara Zelizer and Stuart Allan edd. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0415287995&id=zHs5FsL2pAIC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&sig=xCPKCNE7rqbp3yj9eDEhIlq_94o]
* 2004, John Mole, It's All Greek to Me [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1857883438&id=hK-jfsrSDcoC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&sig=Y8yHDBTWyUVeKsw3RifybeJbQwE]
* 2004' Peter Simmons, in Fool on the Hill [htpp://www.oneworldnet.co.uk/blog/january2004.php/]Tuesday 20 January 2004 - political incorrectness and the '''''chatterati .
* 2005 Christina Odone, in the Manchester Guardian'', quoted in ''Credo by Ray Pritchard [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1581347197&id=uR7gKh4CWUIC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&sig=58JatuzqcghLCAd6Tazni_ntH2U]
As a verb argue
is (obsolete) to prove.As a noun chatterati is
people who chat, argue and debate.argue
English
Verb
(argu)- To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
- He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
- He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
- The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
- He argued his point.
- He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
Derived terms
* argie-bargie * argle-bargle * arguable * argue the toss * arguer * argy-bargyExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English reporting verbs ----chatterati
English
Alternative forms
* chatteratis, as if the plural of a singular *chatteratiNoun
(en-plural noun)- The newspaper the Guardian,'' together with its Sunday sister the ''Observer, are the liberal papers of choice among the middle-class chatterati .
- Perhaps some Anatolian Leigh Fermor had a bestseller among the chatterati'' of Topkapi with his ''Travels in the Egripos.
- From when to die to when to give birth, from whom to have sex with, to how to spend their money, the chatteratis believe they should enjoy unlimited freedom.