A Rabble Of Worrying Freebutters
Yesterday I caught myself employing usage I recall first hearing on cable news. A lot of expressions from mainstream or social media are fun, like shared jokes. The trick is knowing when to drop the joke. “WTF,” “fail,” “not so much”—aren’t they all getting to be like Top 40 hits you’ve heard one too many times?
But some usage sounds wrong from the start, and for me this was one of those cases—“concerning” as a synonym for “worrying” or “worrisome,” as in:
I find Johnny’s meth use concerning.
Gah, nails down a chalkboard, right? But is it incorrect, or am I simply unaccustomed to it?
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