One of my correspondents—quite possibly someone in Canada—has a dose of I-Worm/Mytob.HL. Please could you do something about it because I’m getting bored of the infected spam your machine is sending me. Thank you.
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Sounds like an Aphex Twin track.
Well, we’re in Canada, but AVG assures us that it isn’t us …
Damian, how many times must I tell you it is “bored with” not “bored of”? Cor, what happened to British education, eh?
In this case it should be “bored by“, but that doesn’t sound right. I had a similar argument with my dad over the “Charmers and Chancers” post. I knew I should have used “someone whom”, but it sounded so pompous and stilted that I used “who”. In the end I compromised and left out the relative pronouns entirely. English, eh? Once you’ve learned the rules, the trick to writing informally is do your best to stop your words getting in the way of the conversation.
Well, that’s true … but “bored of” got in the way for me. As a subeditor on the IoS I was plagued by this particular one –- from quite talented journalists, too. I believe too that once you know the rules properly you can transcend them — but transgressing them is subtly different somehow …