From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/31
Date: 1999-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dtb8s$r0p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7dr8s1$1f3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7dr8s1$1f3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> I don't think I've ever seen it used before, but
"intrigue" is a valid verb
It is a *transitive* verb, and is of course quite familiar
in this context (it is OED II definition 5b, and has
nothing at all to do with intrigue as in plotting or
an illicit sexual intimacy, it means exciting curiosity
in)
The intransitive verb (OED II definition 4a) relates to
the noun intrigue. But both uses are pretty much obsolete.
The only 20th century citations in the OED are for 5b
transitive defintion.
Now sometimes American usage is behind English usage, but
the OED in this case picks up American quotes and there
are none here.
So the phrase "stop intriguing", though it might have been
clear to Samuel Johnson, is hardly enlightening in the last
year of the millenium :-)
But it is entirely possible that he meant
stop "underhanded plotting" [to quote definition 4a :-)]
> which I have seen used on occasion. Thus I think "working
an intrigue" was
> what Peter was getting at. However, I suspect he
completely misunderstood
> what John was trying to say, and thus ended up
inadvertantly agreeing with
> him.
>
> Its amusing how many posts here essentially boil down to
"You are wrong. Now
> I'll describe in detail how I agree completely with you."
>
> T.E.D.
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1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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