Get someone to do sthg - get someone doing sthg

to get someone doing something - to get someone started on or engaged in some activity:

I got him looking at pictures to cure his boredom
We need to get Mother eating more; she is very thin.

to get someone to do something - to get someone to perform or complete some task

I'll get him to close the door
She got me to show her the garden.

Cen you do such fine work so many times for so many particip's that again, I'm sorry you don't translate it

...tho I 'stand. I'm'v'denktly the only one of some 100,000 particip's who cares a dam' 'bout anybody else



...and Oh Paok, I'm often torn apart for abbrs like 'sthg,' which would hve been much learer as 'smthg'

Is it correct to say that "to get someone to do something" means to persuade or convince that person to do something for you or for someone else?

Thank you

To do something. Period. Who it is for is supplied by the context.

In my hometown, to get someone doing something also means to catch them doing something.

Somewhere along the way, caught turned into got, and to catch became to get.

Regional idioms ftw.

Cen, 'nother good'n !! You do fine work. Still wish you'd Prof