The word "conversing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation where two or more people are engaged in an informal or formal discussion, or talk about a specific topic. For example, "We had been conversing for hours about the problems facing our country."
Berény spent several years as a young artist in Paris exhibiting alongside Henri Matisse, conversing with Gertrude Stein and even hosting the usually reclusive Hungarian composer Béla Bartók for Christmas.
Walking about central Dublin after Obama and his entourage left early to escape that Icelandic ash cloud, listening to the giddy reaction of the public to that speech, conversing with barmen who had been to Cardiff last week to see Leinster's Heineken Cup triumph, you wondered whether there was still a recession gripping the nation.
The writer, who plays himself, is at home in Paris discussing renovations with a friend; wandering the streets with an ever-present cigarette; conversing about music and literature.
Impassioned anger The opposite of the above, this is driven by the fact it is easier to escalate disputes when conversing electronically because we feel a sense of impunity.
Hungarians sit stolidly reading newspapers, or conversing in their (to outsiders) impenetrable tongue.
Meanwhile the Phraselator, a hand-held device made by VoxTec of Annapolis, Maryland, lets soldiers maintain eye-contact when conversing with non-English speakers.
And they are probably better at conversing with customers who are themselves adopting many of the same technologies.Such considerations help explain why even companies in heavily regulated industries are letting people bring their own gadgets to work.
At a summit of Asian and Pacific leaders in Sydney last month, Mr Rudd upstaged Mr Howard by conversing publicly in fluent Mandarin with Hu Jintao, China's leader.
Elliott Carter, an American centenarian, will also be a prominent presence, with two days of concerts centred on the premiere of "On Conversing with Paradise", a setting of poems by Ezra Pound.
She says she managed to avoid the ceremony of mizuage (deflowering) by conversing with the guest who had paid for the privilege until he fell asleep.She was one of the few geishas to learn English.
They are places you can 'stroll around', meeting and electronically conversing with friends or random passers-by.
