Regardless of the issue at hand, the response is the same: Name-calling replaces conversation.
However, no amount of online safeguarding can replace conversation in the real world.
Work: Slack, our latest instant-messaging program, replaces conversation as a way of conveying simple queries.
I get peeved anytime I hear someone remark how television tears families apart, replaces conversation and disrupts unity, because it has done the exact opposite in my family.
Computerized notes and emails make it easy for doctors to communicate with each other, but have replaced conversations between colleagues.
Social media had replaced conversations with their peers and participation in the here and now.
My theory is that e-mail is replacing phone conversation for working couples.
WITH the housing market faltering, conversation about rising property prices has been replaced by conversation about rising property taxes.
-- false dichotomies seem to have replaced fruitful conversation.
I'm a practitioner of the captive audience sneak attack in the car, and I leave books lying around (not Sports Illustrated) about the science, the mechanics and the emotional aspects of sex and puberty — not to replace the conversation, but to add to it.
An associate of Mr. Rove said Monday that although he had learned in November that the prosecutors were being replaced, his conversation with Allen Weh, the Republican Party chairman in New Mexico, and subsequently with Mr. Gonzales, were brief exchanges at holiday parties and that they occurred after Dec. 7, when Mr. Iglesias and six other prosecutors were dismissed.
