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Usenet Posted 18 years ago
English in UK
And what's happened to "Persuade"?
"Convince" seems to have replaced "persuade" almost completely in UK broadcasting. It seems totally wrong to me to say, for example, "I convinced him to come with us to the cinema"
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[nq:1]"Convince" seems to have replaced "persuade" almost completely in UK broadcasting. It seems totally wrong to me to say, for example, "I convinced him to come with us to the cinema"[/nq] It depends how much persuading he needed :-) John Briggs
- [nq:1]"Convince" seems to have replaced "persuade" almost completely in UK broadcasting.
- It seems totally wrong to me to say, for example, "I convinced him to come with us to the cinema"[/nq] It depends how much persuading he needed :-) John Briggs
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[nq:1]"Convince" seems to have replaced "persuade" almost completely in UK broadcasting. It seems totally wrong to me to say, for example, "I convinced him to come with us to the cinema"[/nq]
It depends how much persuading he needed :-)
John Briggs
It depends how much persuading he needed :-)
John Briggs
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[nq:2]"Convince" seems to have replaced "persuade" almost completely in UK ... "I convinced him to come with us to the cinema"[/nq]
[nq:1]It depends how much persuading he needed :-)[/nq]
Exactly. I'd reluctantly accept "I convinced him to give himself up to the police", but would prefer "I convinced him that he should give himself up". Going to the cinema may indeed require hard persuasio
[nq:1]It depends how much persuading he needed :-)[/nq]
Exactly. I'd reluctantly accept "I convinced him to give himself up to the police", but would prefer "I convinced him that he should give himself up". Going to the cinema may indeed require hard persuasio
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