"Your" in luck - New Look have the perfect garb for you:
I had to go clothes-shopping with the girls yesterday - can you tell that I was bored of waiting outside the changing-rooms?
Next time I'll take a thick black permanent marker so that I can go around making appropriate corrections.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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That sort of thing really gets my back up. Get your magic marker and go back.
Shouldn't that have been "I was bored with</i. waiting...?
😐
@alan.sloman -
My computery codey stuff is crap - apologies:
Shouldn't that have been "I was bored with waiting"?
@alan.sloman -
Maybe. I think it's a regional thing. It could have been "I was bored by waiting...".
To circumvent such ambiguity I've edited the post - after all, the boredom was universal rather than just because of the waiting.
Look on the bright side - at least I didn't use "of" as a piss-poor substitute for "have". 😈
You two should kiss and make up.
Just to clarify matters... that of/have thing was intended as a general gibe rather than being directed at an individual.
@Alen McF - As you're a professional writer maybe you could educate us all here... "bored of...", "bored with...", "bored by..."?
Remember to show your working-out (as opposed to "you're working out") 😀
Things are going to get much worse than this over the next decade. Every 2nd word will have to start with an F and end in G.
I find the direction language is going absolutely appalling. Not that my writing is without fault.
F-ing is now taking over youngster vocabulary so the next generation will be a mess.
Sneak preview of New Look's 2022 maternity top:
Stef, Your too sharp by half.