To find “off of” so incredibly annoying

[Tonylepony]

I keep hearing this all the time at the moment, “she got off of the bus” , “it’s off of the path”. I know in the scheme of things this is completely unimportant, but does anyone else find this as annoying and baffling as me?

@Etulosba

It’s “bored with” or “bored by”. You can’t be “bored of” something.

Thank goodness! I thought I was the only one.

You will now find 'bored of' in the dictionary (eg Cambridge English Dictionary contains it as an example). Using 'of' as the preposition is new, but not that new.

It's completely acceptable, and another example of language evolving.

Saying, I personally or Personally I - has no one heard of tautology?

@percheron67

Saying, I personally or Personally I - has no one heard of tautology?

Sigh. This isn't correct ...

Here's a link that explains:

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personally

It isn't tautology - the role of 'personally' in a sentence with 'I' is to introduce the reflexive element. It emphasises that this point you are making relates to you, and not necessarily anyone else, ie the view is in relation to yourself.

So it's absolutely the correct usage.

No one yet has comments on the demise of "are" even when abbreviated to "re. Instead the singular seems to be used.
Example there's lots of people instead of there 're lots of people.

. Just listen to television new and you'l hear it all the time.

@mollycoddle77

I don't know, I think people are joking when they say it - 'look it's him off of the telly'! They don't actually think that's the correct way of saying it, do they?

Yes, this how I thought of it, too.

A sort of mild piss-take.

@percheron67

Saying, I personally or Personally I - has no one heard of tautology?

I knew someone who used to say, "Me personally, myself...".

I aren't.

'Them' instead of 'those'.

Myself / yourself when they should just say me / you

John and I or John and me being mixed up

Bare with me

Not knowing how to use apostrophes and plurals

Well hello @daisypond !

No, that is completely wrong. You can never in a million years say “ get off of the bus”. It’s “get off the bus”.

This assertion doesn't really get any further! I wonder whether you are (or anyone else is) able to provide a grammatical explanation as to why "to fall out of the bus" is correct but "to get off of the bus" is not.

It just doesn't sit right with me.

I'm in work? At work.

Of an evening? In the evening.

I've only ever heard the above on MN.

Off of used to really irritate me, but I've long since got over it.