[paulnechifor]

Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms.

Although, intercourse is often used as short for "sexual intercourse".

But you are pretty much asking for that joke (like when you still use "ejaculate" with the "blurt out" meaning).

[technofiend]

I literally meant intercourse in the dictionary meaning: "communication or dealings between individuals or groups." Even so words change and usage does too; some people literally don't mean literally when they use that word, but I do. I suppose it's a matter of when you learned the definition.

[zeroxfe]

> Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms.

TIL, thanks. I've never heard the term "public intercourse" before, always "public discourse", so I thought it was a typo.