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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 releasedRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 releasedPosted Dec 7, 2011 1:53 UTC (Wed) by mbg (subscriber, #4940)In reply to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released by nix Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released
You've just hit on my bete noir: using "around" as the universal preposition (typically as a substitute for "relating to" or similar)
Believe it or not, this is a linguistic tic that is growing in popularity, at least here in Australia. It seems to have originated in public policy circles and spread as a kind of insider jargon (and don't media release writers want to be oh so cutting edge).
I suspect another reason for its virulence is that a construction using "around" allows one to riff on vague connections between things without any semantic effort to specify the nature of the relationship.
<rant off>
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