On 5/4/2014 3:00 PM, LizR wrote:
On 5 May 2014 07:56, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 5/4/2014 1:45 AM, LizR wrote:
"Concern on" isn't grammatical, I assume you mean "concern with". Well,
we were
discussing creation myths vs science, hence the concern.
It is grammatical in the same sense as "Senators Express Concern on
Reverse
Mortgage Rule/s/ [/not rule/] By RACHEL ABRAMS
<http://dealbook.nytimes.com/author/rachel-abrams/> New York Times.
/April
30, 2014, 4:00 /pm. "Concern with" usually implies specificity on a
particular myth. "Concern ABOUT" is what is meant by "concern ON".
Hmm, OK, maybe it's an Americanism.
No. The "on" goes with the "express" It might have read "Senators speak
on reverse
mortgage rules".
Well speaking as an editor it reads VERY clunkily to me. I would normally say "speak
about" - or just "discuss".
Normally; but "to speak on" a topic is common in describing a lecture or
political speech.
To say that someone "speaks on" something sounds as though it comes from a long-gone era
of formal diction. It /could/ work, in some restricted contexts, to give a sense of
formality / artificiality, but I wouldn't use it in general speech or writing. "What is
this concern on [whatever it was]" just read to me like someone who can't be bothered to
express themselves properly.
And as the OP said, "Concern ABOUT" is what is meant by "concern ON" -
No, it's not an Americanism as far as I know, but headline writers sometimes chose a short
word to fit the space even if it's not the most common usage.
Brent
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