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[sojourner1]

I am resigning from EPIK.
I am resigning with EPIK for another year.

Are they both spelled the same, but have different pronunciation and meaning? Should I just avoid teaching these sorts of words?

Can you think of any other heteronyms?

[carpetdope]

You should teach them. They have different pronunciations and, to avoid confusion, you should separate the latter with a hyphen. Plus, when spoken, the difference between the two is obvious. Re-sign could be defined as committing to continue one's involvement in some activity.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Any time you're dealing with a Korean say renewing or quitting instead - there's just too much opportunity for confusion there.

[merkurix]

hyphen (maybe?)

[seosan08]

Resignation is the expected choice; resigning is a sloppy second.

As with resignation/resigning. If a good solid noun form exists, use it; the gerund is often a mere stopgap for the lack of a noun, unless the durational activity is of major importance to the statement.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Jandar]

[bacasper]

[sojourner1]

Very well, that makes good sense. Thank you. I'm resigning from teaching in Korea. I'm re-signing for another year. Resignation is the correct way of saying you're quitting, but that's too formal and only used on the executive level. Often they put in a letter of resignation to get their severance package or golden parachute. Resigning is used by quitters who are not executive level in their respective career field such as a teacher quitting to go teach elsewhere or even go retrain for a new career.

[bacasper]

[maingman]

Yu Bum Suk

Any time you're dealing with a Korean say renewing or quitting instead - there's just too much opportunity for confusion there.

?? no understand that point, sorry

[sojourner1]

[Koveras]

You asked about pronunciation? In resign the s is more like a z; in re-sign it's an s.

[PigeonFart]

You should use a hyphen for the word "hy-phen."

No sorry, i'm wrong. Please ignore this.

[Underwaterbob]

present and present