Talk:Interlocutor

Is the cleanup tag still needed? I'm not sure if I have the authority to just remove it myself... -Grenadier 23:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Colloquial?

 * interlocutor noun (formal) 1 a person taking part in a conversation with you 2 a person or an organization that talks to another person or organization on behalf of sb else &mdash;Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Is there a single source saying that "In colloquial use, an interlocutor ... is simply someone taking part in a conversation" (emphasis mine)? To me, formal and colloquial seem very different. &mdash;Goh wz 12:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

linguistics
in sociolinguistics, we talk about an interlocutor as a partipant in a conversation. God knows whether the word is used at all colloquially!