Putting pedantry in its place

No point at all Bags.

But then, anno, those letters to The Times should be signed: Disgusted, of Tunbridge Wells.
Ennui means bored, Liz.
Pédante, Calvados.

So simple anno

Bored, of Poynton.

My English master at school was co-author of our textbook, An English Grammar of Function. I hated it! But he told me that as I used the language well, I could write while the others were busily analyzing sentences into seven columns... He was a very gifted teacher, in my not so humble opinion!

'Bored from Tunbridge Wells and what does ennui mean? Can't be bothered to find dictionary!

mamie No point sending a sense of humour alert to you, I suppose, absent? Have some instead

I quite agree - most 'rules' of grammar are not set in stone.

Not that I mind a discussion of pedantry. Just an example. Must go and catch a boat.

Yes I know that absent. The article used "bored of TW" as the example and people were still objecting to it. Perhaps I should have written "a certain ennui with a discussion of pedantry" to make it clearer.

Mamie Don't be silly. The "of Tunbridge Wells" defines you, not your boredom. So you are a person in Tunbridge Wells who is bored by something, but not by the town in which you live.

I have to leave this lovely place to go back to France today, but I look forward to reading a spirited argument on the subject of why you can be Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and not Bored of Tunbridge Wells, when I get home.
If you really want to be pedantic it should be Royal Tunbridge Wells.

So if I were to be in Tunbridge Wells (which strangely enough I am) and if I were to feel a certain ennui (which I certainly do not), according to anno and phoenix, I still could not sign a letter to The Times, "Bored of Tunbridge Wells".
BTW TW is a fab place to hang out.

BTW, Do you imagine your craw to be where the crop/croop would be on a chicken?

"Bored of" should be made an offence the like of which deserves the sayer being put in the stocks!

As should "different to"

That's why I said I agreed with most of the article. 'Bored of' sticks in my craw!

I'm all for language developing - but sometimes I find it so hard to not to cringe at some things - especially bored of!! Don't know why it grates so much.

It's wonderful. I can now split my infinitives with gay abandon lol

"Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
George Orwell

I'm certainly bored with people saying 'bored of'...