[Vocabulary] strange to or for me?

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Hello!

Which preposition is correct in this case, please? :

"Her behaviour is really strange for me/ to me."

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Her behavior seems strange to me.
 

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THank you.

What about "running is very tiring to me /for me"?

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:up: The preposition for makes 'me' the subject of some other action:

It is strange for me to be at home again after so long abroad.

Note SD's verb: 'seems.... to me'. When you use 'is', your listeners expect a sentence like the one in my example.


[Footballing_Aside]
There is a cliche used frequently by sports commentators: 'for me' = 'in my opinion'. So you might get something like 'For me that was a clear sending off' [=I think the player should have been sent off]
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I would say "for me," but I think it could go either way.
 

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There are very few occurrences of both

tiring for + pronoun

and

tiring to + pronoun

in BYU corpora.
 

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Hi BobK

Should BYU join the list of underlined, defined acronyms?

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Should BYU join the list of underlined, defined acronyms?
BYU stands for Birmingham Youth University. Four large corpora are to be found at this address: http://corpus.byu.edu/. I'm not sure if other people call them BYU corpora. I call them that because I don't know a better term.
 

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Many thanks BC - I didn't recognise the term.
Best regards
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That is Brigham Young University in Utah.
 

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That may be another good reason to add it to the acronyms!:lol:
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The clue's in the place - Salt Lake City. Briham Young was an influential Mormon. There was a joke during his lifetime: 'In Utah, most of the girls marry Young'.

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