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Mis-use "As far as your weather is concerned"

The more I hear this phrase on NBC's Today show the more it bothers me. Only intelligent beings such as humans can be concerned about anything. Inanimate things such as climate/weather can't be concerned about anything. So any reference to weather being concerned is garbage-talk. Why can't the idiot on NBC say "Regarding your weather", or "If you're concerned about your weather", where the weather is the object, not the subject, of the verb? (Gee, it seems I answered my own question. Because he's an idiot!!)
  

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[nq:1]The more I hear this phrase on NBC's Today show the more it bothers me. Only intelligent beings such as ... the object, not the subject, of the verb?

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  • [nq:1]The more I hear this phrase on NBC's Today show the more it bothers me.
  • Only intelligent beings such as ...
  • the object, not the subject, of the verb?
  • (Gee, it seems I answered my own question.
  • )[/nq] Hmmm.
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[nq:1]The more I hear this phrase on NBC's Today show the more it bothers me. Only intelligent beings such as ... the object, not the subject, of the verb? (Gee, it seems I answered my own question. Because he's an idiot!!)[/nq]
Hmmm.
At least they are completing the "as far as..." with "is concerned" which is quite unusual of late.
Much more usual: "As far as the weather, it's going t
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