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To: jbe who wrote (3206)	7/22/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Can't give you the current (well, late 1800s) usages 'till I get home, which is where my OED is. I think your explanation has some merit. I agree that language is changing. BUT, I also think that the role of literate persons is to preserve useful usages and distinctions which are in danger of being lost. (I don't care what modern usage says, I will defend until I die the fundamental difference between imply and infer and will NEVER agree that they may be used interchangeably.)

To: jbe who wrote (3206)	7/22/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Here's the OED entry: dialogue (________), v. [f. prec. n.; cf. F. dialoguer (1717 in Hatz.-Darm).] Hence also 'dialogued ppl. a., 'dialoguing vbl. n. 1. intr. To hold a dialogue or conversation. 1607 Shakes. Timon ii. ii. 52 Var. How dost Foole? Ape. Dost Dialogue with thy shadow? 1685 Trial of H. Cornish, etc., 28 You must not stand to Dialogue between one another. 1741 Richardson Pamela II. 45 Thus foolishly dialogued I with my Heart. 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1882) 286 Those puppet-heroines for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. iv. v. 426 Much semi-articulate questioning and dialoguing with Dame de Roucoulles. b. transf. and fig. 1628 Earle Microcosm., Tobacco-seller (Arb.) 59 Where men dialogue with their noses, and their communication is smoak. 1892 Sat. Rev. 18 June 709/2 With oboe obbligato dialoguing now with sopranos, now with tenors. Ý 2. trans. To converse with. Obs. 1699 F. Bugg Quakerism Exposed 9 To dialogue the Bishops, and call them Monsters. Ibid. 27 The Quakers dialogu'd the Bishops. 3. To express in the form of a dialogue; to furnish with dialogue. 1597 Shakes. Lover's Compl. 132 And dialogu'd for him what he would say. 1781 F. Burney Diary May, Our conference grew very grave..I have not time to dialogue it. 1885 Academy 16 May 356 A tale full of human interest, brightly dialogued. 1887 Contemp. Rev. May 717 The prodigious skill of his dialogued argumentation.