Is there any special reason for you to think your boss speaks the language better than your proofreaders?

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/consider

Have you tried the forum archive (Suche in allen Foren)?

I would say your boss is probably wrong and everyone else is probably right, but it depends on context.

If you can't find any past discussions, I would suggest that you report the search failure here:

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I don't know if you ever had a boss but what the boss assumes is always correct and has to be done. That's the problem.

So the question is not so much 'Who is right?' as 'Whose orders shall we follow?' :-)

I know this phenomenon very well from when I taught English. One woman had to use the phrase 'Would you be so kind and ...?' as her boss did not believe my claim that it was 'Would you be so kind as to...'

ok guys, thank you very much for your help. We will do as our boss told us. But we will remember to avoid "considered as" in the future when we don't have to obey someone else :)

Don't be too hard on your boss, though: I think a certain amount of pig-headedness is usually necessary for the job!

Deklariere die Meinung deines Chefs einfach als EU-Englisch, und gut ist.
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#0: Die Leute vom Proofreading haben das immer ausgebessert auf "is considered xyz" (also ohne as) oder "is considered to be xyz".

That does beg the question: why bother using proofreaders if they're going to be ignored anyway? Why not save the money in that case?

Sag Deinem Boss er verwechselt da was:

to regard AS = richtig
to consider as = FALSCH

We all seem to agree (as do I). Show your boss this thread, and tell him to say three Hail Marys.

'say three Hail Marys'
Ein typischer Boss wird dann höchstend Leo.org auf die IP-Sperrliste setzen lassen.

why bother using proofreaders if they're going to be ignored
Wie von Beratern wird eben mancherseits auch von Korrektoren erwartet, dass sie in allererster Linie dem Kunden Recht geben.

Ich danke euch recht herzlich für die rege Diskussion zu dem Thema :)

I won't show him this thread though. Only causes me troubles. This is one thing you learn very early when working for someone..

This is one of the cases where the venerable 'Fowler's modern English usage' booklet is helpful.
Under the keyword 'consider' it shows an example: '...whom they consider as an evil force.
It then says: Idiom demands either: ...whom they consider an evil force or: ...whom they regard as an evil force.

I think this is a reference which you could also show your boss as an explanation he may accept. Hopefully.

Fowler's modern English usage :
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/a...
http://www.oxfordreference.com/search?source=...

I'd like to add that in my Erlebniswelt, this kind of boss is a minority. My bosses usually accept corrections, if profferred respectfully.

I remember only one out of a string of many who would resort to the argument that he was higher on the ladder than me (when discussing whether personnel was spelled with 2 n and 1 l or the other way round). I did not have the courage, at the time, to ask back whether linguistic cases of doubt should be decided based on hierarchy.

But, as I said, that was an exception.

Without wishing to invoke hierarchy :-)

proffered

has two fs and two rs (not three).

Thanks, underling ;-)