With regards to regarding
From the first sentence in Congressman Nadler's letter the other day to Attorney General Barr:
I write to you regarding troubling media reports relating to your handling of Special Counsel Mueller's report...
Just awful! Instead this should be "I write to you about troubling media reports on your handling of Special Counsel Mueller's report..." (without the italics, of course.)
Either "about" or "on" is always better than "regarding," which you should never use.
I've written about this grotesque usage before: Regarding on and upon.
Whenever Nadler is on TV, he's admirably plain-spoken and articulate. The blame probably lies with his staff, and he just signed the clunky letter.
See also Gagging the "globe" for a "decade."
Labels: Language
posted by Rob Anderson @ 2:20 PM
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"Just awful! Instead this should be "I write to you about troubling media reports on your handling of Special Counsel Mueller's report..." without the italics, of course."
Why? You and the rest having a problem with Barr using Muellers own words? I thought Mueller was your god?
Remedial reader alert: This post of course isn't about Barr or Mueller; it's about Nadler's prose in the letter to Barr.
Hey Writting minus 101 professor. What is the meaning of insinuate/insinuation?
What's the meaning of "writting"?
"What's the meaning of "writting"?
Although I appreciate the spell check as that is all you have to resort to. It wasn't my question.
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