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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread can you be persuaded? #50833 12/26/01 05:07 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy OP Carpal Tunnel OP of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park over in Information and Announcements, Jackie uses the expression "and not of the male persuasion" to indicate a female.. Now, i am a female, -- not because i was persuaded, it's a matter of biology. maybe-- i could be persuaded to transfer my physical desires to be blunt, sexual urges to an other female, (but i serously doubt it, and it would be for long.) but no amount of sweet talking .. and that is what persuading is, is going to change my physical make up-- if persauading could actually change things, why i'd sweet talk myself into a size 6! when did we start (and by we, i mean, at the least US's, if not all english speakers) start using 'persuasion' to define things that we can't be persuaded about? persuade SYLLABICATION: per·suade PRONUNCIATION: pr-swd TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: per·suad·ed, per·suad·ing, per·suades To induce to undertake a course of action or embrace a point of view by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty: “to make children fit to live in a society by persuading them to learn and accept its codes” (Alan W. Watts). See Usage Note at convince. ETYMOLOGY: Latin persudre : per-, per- + sudre, to urge; see swad- in Appendix I. the link below is to the root swad-- which is related to sweet! http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE508.html my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: can you be persuades? #50834 12/26/01 06:21 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Well, of Troy, swad it is! That is sweet! And when I think of what someone of the female persuasion could be (boots, whips, chains aside) is to persuade through Female Sweetness, whatever that may mean to whatever female who refers to herself as being of the female persuasion. After all, Jane Austen wrote a whole book about it, male and female persuasion alike. Me, recently I guess I've been of the Female Dissausion. Drat! Beau Regard, Wordwench Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: can you be persuades? #50835 12/26/01 06:47 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Persuasion - Vive la différence! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,328 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (wofahulicodoc), 755 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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