>>Yes, and this appointment can similarly be referred to as a previous engagement, but you wouldn't say "I've got an engagement with someone": "appointment", "interview" (in this case), "date", "rendezvous", "triste", "meeting", etc.
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>>People can be engaged in conversation at any of these events.
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>Funny though, that they never get married in conversation afterwards :).
Marry, they can't, sir (Shakespearean pun there - see below)
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
