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Re: Convince vs. Persuade (WAS: Displays versus Appears )
Subject:Re: Convince vs. Persuade (WAS: Displays versus Appears ) From:"Herman Holtz" <h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:09:45 -0500
> At the risk of sounding Zen-like: if you're the only one who
> recognizes the distinction, is the distinction worth making? Or is
> it simply wasted effort past a certain point? When a majority of
> people miss the nuances you're trying to distinguish, then maybe the
> time has come to admit defeat. You might grumble along the way (
A most significant observation, and one that has caused me to abandon
the exactly right word because it was exactly right for my ears only,
apparently. The word was "epitomizes," and not even the group editor could
define the word correctly. Makes me want to grin my teeth (if I had any
left) in anger at myself for the wasted effort in building a large and
largely useless vocabualry. - Herm
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