"  Maybe the topic would be better placed under conversation, though, or some other word.

Wikipedians might find value in a tool called QuickTopic. It is a ""free, preposterously easy instant discussion space."" It might fill a gap between this page and the Wikipedia mailing list. That is, if any gaps are found between those two existing mechanisms.

Gaps?  What gaps?

But should this go under conversation instead?  I don't know, I'm not a linguist or communications expert. 

Not all talking is conversation, either in the general sense of talking to another person or in the stricter sense of talking to another person and listening to that other person also.  Perhaps this page should be strictly for the physical phenomenon of human talking.  Or should that be under speech?  -)  KQ

Speech is the saying of the words (i.e. a transmitter), but in no way implies that the listener (reciever) has actually gotten anything out of it. That is how UDP protocol is structured. I think that talking to an active reviever TCP is really what conversation is about, but communication of ideas requiring understanding on the part of the reciever is very far beyond the scope of talk. 
If I talk to a duck, that is a speech, for while the duck may hear, not much else is happening.
 

Somebody send us a linguist.  ;-)  KQ

Ask Gritchka.  Damian Yerrick

Any decision made on this yet?  Seems like the article could be considered redundant with other articles and hard to define based on what I've seen here... Should we keep it?  Rgamble

If you create this page, geeks will come
If you delete this page, geeks will want to create it again.
Some people will travel thousands of miles to see the Worlds Largest Rubber Band Ball. I went to Talk just so I could come in here and see ""Talk:Talk"" (see: recursion). The experience was less frustraiting than Talk:Sex but not as good as  05:05, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I have removed this paragraph because I thought it didn't really add something to the article and sounds like a joke to me.  11:34, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk is also used when talking to other people, in Standard English you would say ""i am talking to someone"" However this varies when we look at Australian, South African or Estuary English. This is due to changes in dialect. In Standard Australian English, one would say 'I'm talkin' to someone darl'"" and in South African one would say, ""I'm talking to someone, yis?"" and in Estuary English one would say, ""Can't yoow see im talkin' to someone love? Just give me a minute."" Chavs completely mangle the word ""talk"" and would instead say ""Your chattin` sh*t"". And thus the history of the english language is clearer for another day.
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Perhaps this is my noobieness showing, but could one somehow make a disambiguation page for the subject?

I made a disambiguation page last week, but after reading this discussion I think it would be for the best if I act unilaterally and move ""Talk"" to ""Talk (Unix)"", and move ""Talk (disambiguation)"" to ""Talk"".  And therefore that is what I am going to do.  Ta Ra!   

Teehee, there really is a Talk:Talk. I feel special now. If I were to slit my wrists right now, I would die a happy man.  "