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RE: Convince vs. Persuade (WAS: Displays versus Appears )
Subject:RE: Convince vs. Persuade (WAS: Displays versus Appears ) From:"Geoff Lane" <geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:03:29 -0000
Yet another transatlantic difference.
Cheryl Magadieu writes:
>
> I use the guidelines in the Associated Press Stylebook and
> Libel Manual (my
> copy is from 1994):
>
> You may be *convinced that* something or *of* something. You must be
> *persuaded* to *do* something.
>
> Right: The robbers persuaded him to open the vault.
> Wrong: The robbers convinced him to open the vault.
>
> Right: The robbers convinced him that it was the right thing to do.
> Wrong: The robbers persuaded him that it was the right thing to do.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary gives these examples:
"persuaded them that it would be helpful"
"tried to persuade me of its value"
Which contradict Cheryl's (I assume, American) usage.
HTH,
Geoff Lane
Cornwall, UK
geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk
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