Difference between prattle and colloquium
Definitions
noun
- idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
verb
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Examples
Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes.
She wanted to prattle about Archie, but I wasn't having any.
I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle just happened to cash lies.
Definitions
noun
- an address to an academic meeting or seminar
- an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
Examples
It was a great moment near the end of the colloquium when it became clear that the three-choir polyphonic complexity scheduled for the last motet was not really viable.
Fortem reddunt animum et constantem; et pium colloquium non permittit animum absurda cogitatione torqueri.
The colloquium is a two-day workshop on the future of the justice system.
