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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/31
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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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