Bored With Of?

[katerich48]

After reading Coccinelle's question about "on or at" I want to ask if anyone here is as annoyed by the "new" way that people describe their boredom of a particular thing.. When I was growing up it was always "Oh I'm bored with it" or "I'm bored with that"... Now all you hear is "I'm bored of it"... Who decided to change "with it" to of it" and why? The new way to me doesn't make any sense.

[mushroom25]

language evolves. what becomes that which is recognised as correct is common usage. thus apostrophes denote a plural (or should that be apostrophe's?), contractions become separate words (as in might of, should of, etc) and the verb "to say" has mutated into the compound verb "to be like" (eg, I'm like, she was like, etc)

[FredPuli43]

Do you mean as in "I am tired of it"? "He who is tired of London is tired of [ Shouldn't that be 'with' ?] life" Do you see any difference in the two constructions 'bored of' and 'bored with'? What? We might say "I am tired with his constant visits". Is that wrong? If so,why?

[humbersloop]

mildly irritated by "bored of"

absolutely infuriated by "can I get?" instead of "may I have?"

[FredPuli43]

And let's defend 'like' for say. 'Like' is invariably used to suggest the tone, attitude, reaction of the given speaker and is accompanied by a look, tone, or gesture to illustrate what the speaker was 'like' in their thinking and response. You'll notice that speakers still use 'he said', 'she said' and 'I said'. The trouble is that most users are young and a lot, if not all, of their related conversations are infused with emotion which would not be there in older people

[giveup]

Agree with you all. (I'm bored of it too)

[Old_Geezer]

At various points in my life I have come across others who express things differently from myself. I tend to assume it's some recent trend thing, usually to find out later that the "new" way of saying something has been around for years, and it's just I hadn't come across it.

Things like "of an evening" instead of "during" or "any road" when the expression that makes sense was "any way", and loads of other examples. Constantly being surprised an how different folk have different experiences they assume is the norm.

[boxtops]

I'm not aware that it has changed officially - most people who write "bored of" are soon corrected - "I'm fed up with it" is held to be more correct than "I'm fed up OF it". I thought it was just lazy language.

[bibblebub]

end of

[dickythecook]

I am bored with it implies that I am a least partly to blame for being bored.
I am bored of it implies that 'it' is totally to blame for me being bored

[coccinelle]

I wonder if the phrase I'm bored to death of .... has something to do with it...

[aelmpvw]

noo way of talkin init

[factor-fiction]

I haven't noticed 'bored of' but wouldn't be bothered by it- it's similar to fed up with or fed up of.

I don't follow mushrooms's point about 'might of' since it is just wrong rather than an alternative to a valid contraction (might've)- unless that was the point you were making.

The expression 'any road' is not one I use but it has been around for maybe 50 years as I can rememeber it from primary school

[heathfield]

Where's Chris when you need him?

[dance2trance]

It is just one of those fads. An ad exec in Soho noticed some people in a bar saying it and thought it was so 'urban and ghetto'. He wrote it down in a script.
People repeated it thinking it was the latest craze and a passport to Cools Ville USA! Remember other old fads? Such as

'He turns to me and goes' ie He speaks to me.

The expression 'Christmastime', or 'Wintertime' - that soon passed - it fell at the hurdle of Autumn - no one says 'Autumntime'.

They are fun for a while but like repeated jokes wear thin and vanish.