"Profile: Just don't lie about him, that's all: Elton John, still standing after all his trials"

[hardyweineberg]

"Profile: Just don't lie about him, that's all: Elton John, still standing after all his trials"
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...ll-standing-after-all-his-trials-1502423.html


1) Is "lie about me/ him/ her" standard English?

2) Can I say "she lied about me" as a short way of saying "she lied that I disrespected her"?

 

[5jj]

1). Yes.
2) No.

 

[hardyweineberg]

1). Yes.
2) No.

Is it that "she told a lie about me" is grammatically incorrect? I'm just surprised that the first sentence is acceptable, but the second isn't.

 

[Tarheel]

Instead of saying "She lied when she said I disrespected her" you could say "She lied about me."

Note how I changed the sentence.

 

[SoothingDave]

The problem is not with "she lied about me," but rather with you somehow thinking this also conveys something about you disrespecting her.