Marina Gaidar
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What is the difference between "I speak of my son" and "I speak about my son"?
[Vocabulary] I speak of my son
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It can be the same.
In the OALD, for SPEAK, sense 3 doesn't make a distinction between them:
speak of/about something/somebody: to mention or describe something/somebody
In the OALD, for SPEAK, sense 3 doesn't make a distinction between them:
speak of/about something/somebody: to mention or describe something/somebody
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It can depend on the amount of information- sometimes of is used for a brief piece and about for a more detailed description. I would not use speak of if the central subject of my talk was my son.
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