The phrase "form a discussion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of initiating or creating a conversation or dialogue on a particular topic.
Example: "We need to form a discussion about the new policies to ensure everyone is on the same page."
Alternatives: "initiate a discussion" or "start a conversation."
Ms. Zunshine said that in 1999 she and about 10 others won approval from the Modern Language Association to form a discussion group on cognitive approaches to literature.
The Westchester group dates to December 1999, when, after a meeting in Brooklyn of the society's New York City Casey Stengel chapter, Mr. Jazzo, Mr. Pardon, Mike Aronstein of Yorktown Heights, Ken Matinale of White Plains and Tony Morante of Pelham decided to form a discussion group closer to home.
In India it's easy to form a discussion group outside.
Hedge organized what eventually became known as the Transcendental Club, by suggesting to Emerson in 1836 that they form a discussion group for disaffected young Unitarian clergy.
CrowdOptic can detect when people are all looking at the same thing, and it sends a notification asking whether they want to form a discussion group, where they can share photos and comments.
This is why these are usually called generative models: they do not only estimate the statistical significance of their corresponding features but also reproduce the temporal arrival patterns of messages that form a discussion thread.
They were so collectively shaken that they formed a discussion group, and then, like good academics, turned the proceedings into a book.
Among those who set out to study the pope's views closely was Peter McFadden, a consultant to nonprofit groups from New York who formed a discussion group in 2000 and spent two years delving into Pope John Paul II's early writings on love relationships.
They ended up forming a discussion group and giving lectures on the topic, then eventually creating 80,000 Hours to spread their ideas.
Upon his arrival at his new post, he immediately began to collaborate with the mathematician Hans Hahn, the sociologist and economist Otto Neurath, forming a discussion group known as the 'Schlick Zirkel'.
He was in especially imperious form in a discussion with a quite different kind of Englishman, the amiable Lancastrian David Lloyd, during England's catastrophic performance against New Zealand in this week's one-day international.
