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15/09/2008 08:03:31
 
 
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Miscellaneous
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>>>>>>>>>sagovornik - go-between
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>>>>>>>>Nope, that's the "potrcko" (the runabout, literally) or "posrednik" (middleman). Sagovornik is interlocutor in English - but nobody uses that word; I haven't heard it ever, just found it when I was checking. Sa=with, govoriti=speak, so, co-speaker, partner in conversation. Two people who talk are sagovornik to each other.
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>>>>>>>Go-between is also an interlocutor. How about "Arbiter"?` (the interlocutor in a dispute)
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>>>>>>The person you're talking with, . Just talking, literally, with-speaker (yep, govornik means speaker, orator).
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>>>>>Well I don't know. An interlocutor, to me, is someone who speaks to both parties, on their behalf(s). From the latin "to speak between" afaik.
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>>>>No. It's just a person who takes part in a conversation. The old minstrel shows used to have a guy in the minstrel chorus line who sort of led the conversation. He would ask questions of the others, and they would reply with the joke. He was the interlocutor. I think he was usually the guy in the middle of the line.
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>>>Yeah, I know - "Mr interlocutor" who wore a big top-hat.
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>>>I also thought it was a football team started by Jean Luc Picard after he was captured by the Borg.
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>>Could be. I'm only familiar with the original series. It became to sophisticated and took itself too seriously after Kirk and crew were replaced.
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>Hmmm. It was a joke - you have to have a knowledge of Italian football teams and STNG to get it :-)

Ah. So I guess to someone familiar with neither, the odds of getting the joke are pretty low? ;)
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