The word interlocutor has appeared in 42 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 17 in the Opinion essay “Debate Doesn’t Have to Be Divisive” by Peter Coy:
There are good debates and bad debates. The bad ones are like the argument sketch from the old British television show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” A man who has paid to have an argument complains that his interlocutor is simply contradicting him. “Argument is an intellectual process,” he insists. “Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.” The interlocutor responds, “No, it isn’t.”
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