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Posted By: wwh secreted - 10/18/02 09:21 PM
From latest TIME magazine, p 54+55 "[Satellite] intelligence would also guide US commandos
to the right places once they secreted inside Iraq....."

Translation, please?




Posted By: tsuwm Re: secreted - 10/18/02 09:26 PM
secret v. [verbing the noun]

[f. secret n.
In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between "secret and secrete v.]
trans. To keep secret, conceal, hide.

ergo, 'once they hid inside Iraq.'

Posted By: Capital Kiwi Re: secreted - 10/18/02 09:46 PM
If the article had said "once they were secreted inside Iraq", it would have made sense. It would mean that they had been dripped from a pipette rather than dropped from an aircraft ...

Posted By: Wordwind Re: secreted - 10/18/02 09:59 PM
In reply to:

If the article had said "once they were secreted inside Iraq", it would have made sense. It would mean that they had been dripped from a pipette rather than dropped from an aircraft ...

Ha!

Whatcha drinkin' tonight, Cap?

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