Re: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )

["Herman Holtz" <h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net>]

    I have the feeling that many of those who grew up in the movie-radio-tv
era have simply not read enough to have developed an ear for language. When
I read of someone "convincing" someone else to do something, it sets off an
alarm in me immediately. What good is it to have words with precise meaning,
such as "convince," if we misuse them so badly? That is a principal pet
peeve of mine, although I have others, of course. - Herm





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> On this list are people of various ages and from various parts of the
United States and the rest of the world. Some of the younger participants
may have had teachers who themselves are younger than some of us fogeys by a
decade or two or three.



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