convince and persuade

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, in Russian, "persuade" is is the Imperfect aspect of "convince,"
which is the Perfect aspect of "persuade." That is, a person who is
convinced is one who has been successfully persuaded.

Of course, this could be merely an artifact of the translator's
intuition WRT to the two languages and a claim with which other
Slavicists may not necessarily agree.

-Wilson

On 1/14/09, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> "I will have to convince the author to give us a quick revision of her
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> My AOL spell-and-grammar checker tells me that this use of "convince" is an
> "inappropriate preposition." They suggest "persuade" instead. I vaguely
> remember that some old-time prescriptivists condemn the use of "convince" as
> a verb
> meaning "persuade," but this seems bizarrely old-fashioned--and
> "preposition"
> has nothing to do with it.
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