The phrase "a broken conversation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conversation that is interrupted, incomplete, or lacking coherence.
Example: "Their discussion felt like a broken conversation, with each person struggling to keep up with the other's thoughts."
Alternatives: "disjointed dialogue" or "fragmented exchange".
From the backseat, a broken conversation, perhaps more accurately described as sign language, can be seen/heard.
The Dutch researchers think it's because the word developed in a specific environment for a specific need — quickly trying to fix a broken conversation by getting the speaker to fill in the listener's blank.
While it may seem like a throwaway word, "Huh?" is the glue that holds a broken conversation together, the globe-trotting team reported Friday in the journal PLOS ONE.
Slightly increase intensity for minutes 2 to 3. Work you way to a high intensity level (you should be able to carry on a broken conversation) during minute 4. Keep the intensity high through minute 5 and bring it back to a moderate level during minute 6. Repeat the pattern during minutes 7 to 11 and during minutes 12 to 16. Accelerate during minute 17 to your highest level.
They carry on a rather broken conversation, at the end of which Bigger cries out: "I didn't want to kill! . . .
When the only people you've been talking to are senior citizens telling you about porn sites, and a one-way conversation with a broken copier, you get a bit rusty.
At fault is not just a broken education system but how conversations about it have been divorced from a big shift in work culture.
It is instant, always convenient for both parties, and you can rest assured that a broken connection won't impede your conversation.
"I always respect private conversations, but in broad terms, he said 'I want to fix a broken system,' so I think there was an opening there," Garcetti said.
Their conversation over beers led to a ski date a few weeks later and eventually a broken leg.
Dr. Gebre, the pioneer of community conversations in Ethiopia, recognizes that conversations may have to take up practical and immediately pressing issues in a community (such as a broken bridge) before moving on to deeper, systemic or taboo issues (such as female genital mutilation or HIV) [ 27].
