Some Tale or a Conversation

The 'national conversation' on Scottish independence as described by Alex Salmond continues with his assertion yesterday that he anticipated Scotland would break away from the United Kingdom in a decade. Now I've always thought, and that's how the dictionary defines conversation, that it was (at least) a two sided affair. Interestingly there's not a lot of people n Scotland who seem to want to join in the conversation, perhaps most people, as the polls indicate, just don't want independence? The SNP are fond of comparing us with Norway where the word for conversation is ‘Samtale’. Maybe we should adopt a new word for the type of conversation that the FM wants - Sometale....