Quote Originally Posted by mundame View Post
Darn! How are you grokking all these new words before I even hear them? "Let's have a conversation" sounds ominous, probably comes from the old dangerous Southern idiom, "I wanted to visit with you a little."

That means trouble. John Malkovich uses the visit phrase well as a company boss in the movie "Deepwater Horizon." Both participants are from New Orleans and you can see the fix-it guy understands the boss is there to put on the pressure to procede with oil production and quit the tests. He gets his way, but the rig blows up.

What do you think "Let's have a conversation" means?
I assume to those using it, it means they're willing to discuss a certain subject.

But what gets me is how they ALL will use the same phrase, as if they ALL were programmed to do so. The pundits, the analysts, the political figures that are interviewed, just talking heads in general, they hear something and then it appears one right after another just repeats it like a robot. I think it's almost creepy.