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As a non-native speaker, I would have expected the title to be "Why Google Worries Me". "Worried About" sounds like it's Google who's being negatively affected
by ckastner 8y ago
As a non-native speaker, I would have expected the title to be "Why Google Worries Me".
"Worried About" sounds like it's Google who's being negatively affected by this, but that doesn't seem to be the main point of the story.
Is this a common pattern?
- Stratoscope 8y agoYour wording is certainly better than the ambiguous article title. I would write it your way too. "I'm worried about X" usually means that I'm concerned for X's welfare, but not always. It takes some context to disambiguate the phrase. A couple of examples: "I'm worried about that stray kitten." "I'm worried about the lion perched in that tree." They are both felines, but clearly in one case I'm concerned about the cat's safety, in the other case what the cat might do to me.
- lovich 8y agoCommonish I guess, it's not something I havent seen before. I dont know how often I see the pattern but it is ambiguous as both interpretations of meaning are valid
- woodrowbarlow 8y agoyes, it's a common pattern in colloquial american english. "worried about" can mean either "concerned by" (as the article uses it) or "concerned about" (as you interpreted it).
- humanrebar 8y agoBoth are fine. Try reading it this way: [Why] [I'm worried] [about Google].
- Dirlewanger 8y agoYours is the more succinct way of saying it. Remember that all these modern blogs usually aren't written by (or edited by for that matter) professionals of any kind, so the grammar/sentence structure will suffer at the expense of pumping out articles fast and getting clicks.