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I'd quibble with that textbook. It's not wrong to say that someone "inserted a comment" into a conversation. Yes, "introduce" is also a perfectly good word.

They might have slightly different connotations. If a group of people were having a conversation and you say, "Bob introduced a new subject", I would take that to mean that he steered the conversation in that direction, or that the previous topic was petering out so he brought up a new one. But if you say, "Bob inserted a new subject", that implies to me that he interrupted others.

Horatio has noted that "insert into orbit" is a technical term in the aerospace industry and noted the differences in meaning. So again, either word is grammatically correct. One or the other might not accurately describe what happennedhappened in context.

I'd quibble with that textbook. It's not wrong to say that someone "inserted a comment" into a conversation. Yes, "introduce" is also a perfectly good word.

They might have slightly different connotations. If a group of people were having a conversation and you say, "Bob introduced a new subject", I would take that to mean that he steered the conversation in that direction, or that the previous topic was petering out so he brought up a new one. But if you say, "Bob inserted a new subject", that implies to me that he interrupted others.

Horatio has noted that "insert into orbit" is a technical term in the aerospace industry and noted the differences in meaning. So again, either word is grammatically correct. One or the other might not accurately describe what happenned in context.

I'd quibble with that textbook. It's not wrong to say that someone "inserted a comment" into a conversation. Yes, "introduce" is also a perfectly good word.

They might have slightly different connotations. If a group of people were having a conversation and you say, "Bob introduced a new subject", I would take that to mean that he steered the conversation in that direction, or that the previous topic was petering out so he brought up a new one. But if you say, "Bob inserted a new subject", that implies to me that he interrupted others.

Horatio has noted that "insert into orbit" is a technical term in the aerospace industry and noted the differences in meaning. So again, either word is grammatically correct. One or the other might not accurately describe what happened in context.

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I'd quibble with that textbook. It's not wrong to say that someone "inserted a comment" into a conversation. Yes, "introduce" is also a perfectly good word.

They might have slightly different connotations. If a group of people were having a conversation and you say, "Bob introduced a new subject", I would take that to mean that he steered the conversation in that direction, or that the previous topic was petering out so he brought up a new one. But if you say, "Bob inserted a new subject", that implies to me that he interrupted others.

Horatio has noted that "insert into orbit" is a technical term in the aerospace industry and noted the differences in meaning. So again, either word is grammatically correct. One or the other might not accurately describe what happenned in context.