[Leica] persuasion

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Thanks Rei, for shedding light where there
was mostly heat.

Peter.
SF, CA

P.S. Wasn't Jane Austen of the 
novelist Persuasion?



--- Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> wrote:

> To Mr Small's point, the OED (2005 Draft Revision)
> 4.c's definition,
> and sample usage suggest condescension or perhaps
> xenophobia (note
> "Pharisee persuasion" "Caledonian persuasion")
> "Tooth-brush
> persuasion" escapes me, however.
> 
> In the present instance, it is improbable any
> disresepect was intended.
> 
> 
>      4.c. colloq. and humorous. A group or
> collection linked by a shared
>   characteristic, quality, or attribute. Esp. in
> early use in "of the
>   _______ persuasion": of a (specified) nationality,
> occupation,
>   inclination, etc.
> 
>   1855 Harper's Mag. July 227/1 You may tell your
> Aunt Mastodon so, and
>   all your other relatives of the Pharisee
> persuasion. 1861 G. H. LEWES
>   Let. 2 July in 'G. Eliot' Lett. (1954) III. 434 It
> is notorious that Aytoun's
>   greatest poet was Homer--not I believe a gentleman
> of the Caledonian
>   persuasion. 1885 F. ANSTEY Tinted Venus vii. 78
> She said she thought
>   it was..a gentleman in the hair-cutting
> persuasion. 1902 R. HICHENS 
>   Londoners 33 A sinister moustache of the
> tooth-brush
>   persuasion. 1969 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 94 241
> Gloire de Dijon over
>   a century old, is also of the tea rose persuasion.
> 1995 Vogue
>   Dec. 27/3  They're from a mixed marriage and get
>   to see every ethnic, sexual and political
> persuasion here.
> 
> 
> -rei
> 
> On Mar14 20:19, Gary Todoroff wrote:
> > Does this make the old movie "Friendly Persuasion"
> suspect, too? Good grief,
> > Marc, I've never in a long and unsheltered life
> heard the term persuasion
> > given such a bad rap.
> > 
> > Somebody pressed a button on you that no one else
> knew existed. Poor BD
> > stepped on a land mine in a field that wasn't even
> marked but was certainly
> > "Marc'ed!"
> > 
> > I am certainly now of the persuasion to walk on
> pins and needles anywhere
> > semantically near you, Marc, that's for sure!
> > 
> > Gary T
> > 
> > > -----Original from Marc
> > >
> > > BD
> > >
> > > Gimme a break.  You used a phrase that is a
> LARGE ALARM BELL for racism,
> > > sexism, religious intolerance, and I called you
> on it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
> 
> 
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