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Archiveable chat - a great feature currently available in Spreadsheets and Presentations but nothing can be archived - it would be useful if this was tied into Google Chat / Email chat (archived their) the chat could be archived for the owner of the document.

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  1. intransitive verb To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually.
  2. intransitive verb Computer Science To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network.
  3. noun An informal, light conversation.
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  • Steve Harmison appeals for the wicket of Kejel Tyson in the tour opener last week England's selectors will have spent Sunday pondering the side for this weeks 'Jamaica Test, but Andrew Strauss admitted that much of the chat was about the merits of Steve Harmison and the fitness of Andrew Flintoff. —  Cricinfo news from Cricinfo
  • Archiveable chat - a great feature currently available in Spreadsheets and Presentations but nothing can be archived - it would be useful if this was tied into Google Chat / Email chat (archived their) the chat could be archived for the owner of the document. —  ICT in my Classroom
  • First, though, it is vital for you to have a clear understanding of what a chat is and how it works. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • So, if I am there, coffee and a chat is a certainty! —  Youthblog
  • Hacking or exploiting of the chat is a punishable offense by law. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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interview ·  conversation ·  gossip ·  greeting ·  chatter ·  banter ·  entertainment ·  converse ·  companionship ·  nap ·  stroll ·  video

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chat:   chatted ·  chatting
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English chatten, to jabber, alteration of chateren; see chatter.

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  1. from late Middle English chatte, a shortened form, apparently taken as the base, of chatter, q. v. Reduplicated chitchat, q. v.
  2. chat, v.
  3. from chat, with reference to their chattering cries. Cf. chatterer, 2, and chack.
  4. from Middle English chat, a cat, also a catkin, from Old French chat, a cat (cf. chaton, chatton, a catkin): see cat, and cf. catkin, catling.
  5. A particular use of chat, a catkin, or a variant of chit, a little twig, a child, etc.: see chit.
 

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