Are you bored ...

Hi Sandra, well I'm bored with it all of course. I say of course and so should you, as the more we grapple with the complexities of grammar in our second languages the more we will lose our abilities to get it right in the original one. I have more tolerance to errors now as make so many of my own on a routine daily basis. I made a classic stupid how could I have done that one the other day when someone asked me how much a pot of marmalade and I replied 45 instead of 4.50. Probably because I was putting the grammar right in my mind which went with the rest of the sentence. Wondering if your snow has gone yet? Here it is a beautiful sunshiny day with a note of crispness in the air. And with that I really must go out in it. Speak to you later.

language is continuously changing sandra. english is not the same as it was 5 years ago, quite a lot different to what it was a hundred years ago and see how quickly you can read chaucer without a translation. i'd say now that both prepositions are valid, although perhaps of is newer.

I can be tired of something or bored from something, I do not think I can be bored of something, but maybe, if I try hard. I have not heard that phrase though, so it cannot really be grating on me.

Bored with, definitely. I still haven't gotten over people saying "acting out" instead of "acting up". Apparently I'm getting old.

What drives me nuts is the way we have to bend to common usage and the meanings of words change. There has always been a bit of looking the other way at "usage" when it comes to "forms of expression." However, when the usage becomes so prolific that the dictionary definition of words change that just makes me crazy. It seems a sort of "can't beat 'em, must join 'em approach."

It is annoying sometimes but I can understand how people feel, monotony is well - I hate to say it - boring:P

You are right Sandra but many People now just use the Language the way they want to I am certainly not bored with you lol and I never got bored with my Job either lol But I think the English Language is not used correctly any more

You are grammatically correct Sandra. However, these days it seem that all rules of English language have been passed over (should that be overthrown) for the ease of "Text Speak". This new language is one that I have not learned and suspect that I never shall do. I receive E mails that ask me: "r u OK". This much I do understand although I regard it as lazy to do so. Apparently the reasoning for the new language is that the mobile telephone companies charge by the letter and an abbreviated form of the language has been introduced to ease the pockets of users. I do not "text" and struggle to understand why "Text Speak" has migrated into e mails and letters. There are several words or phrases that grate with me - "at this moment in time" is a particular harsh sound to me. For some reason "empower" annoys me too. Oh and "heroes" when the word is used in association with people that earn their living from kicking, throwing or batting balls on the sports field too.

Well I would say that 'bored from' is alien to me and sounds completely wrong. But then I am more likely to say 'bored of' rather than 'bored with' because big words such as 'with' don't come naturally to me, lol. Personally I don't think you are being pedantic because you obviously have a clearer appreciation for grammatical correctness which doesn't seem to be so important these days when it comes to schooling, but is still important or else we will all end up speaking and writing text speak. I just wish that when I was at school and doing English, I am talking a quarter of a century ago, that they put as much emphasis on proper grammar as they did in the years before then.

most of my friends also often complained that they are bored with their jobs. bored with their partners while students bored with their teachers or classmates. boring is very popular these days and i even bored with my online earnings also.that's people not satisfied with the fact so always bored of things.

I don't think you can get bored from something or someone. They haven't really done anything to you to make you that way. I think you can find someone or something boring to be with or do. I just think its you. So I would go with "WITH" than with "OF".

I get bored, as do people I see, but I hate hearing it for some reason. It has such a depressing, ungrateful hopeless feel to it that it's like being punched. Be bored but don't tell me.

bored at home.