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Bondrock · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Location: ^_^

many ESL students confuse the word bored with the word boring...
a recent poll shows that many professional teachers are equally bored and boring...

http://tinyurl.com/2hylhe

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some also confuse annoy with annoying....

PS: zombo inspired this post...

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

bored is the feeling. Boring is what makes the feeling.

Unless there was no real point to this thread.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

I teach that people become bored (I'm bored, she is bored) and things are boring (the soccer game was boring, the movie was boring). People can be boring too, but that's a very insulting thing to say. By contrast, things like soccer games and movies cannot become bored.

When ever I've asked a Korean whether 심심하다 and 지루하다 are distinct like 'bored' and 'boring' in English, they've said no. Dictionaries, however, reveal that 지루하다 is like 'boring' above. See http://endic.naver.com/endic.nhn?docid=2757420&rd=s .

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

"Hi, I am Ed and I'm a feeling inside of you." I then shake the student's hand, write my name "ed" on the board then put down a bunch of words and ask if I - ed - am inside of the student or not.

bored, boring
tired, tiring
worried, worrying
scared, scary
(frightened, frightening)
(terrified, terrifying)
(annoyed, annoying)
(encouraged, encouraging)
(confused, confusing)
etc

(some classes meet "Ing" who is not in you and is very pushy, making you feel)

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

It happens a lot with 'fun-funny' as well.

diver · Joined: 16 Jun 2003

Maybe their teachers could teach active and passive voice.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:36 am Post subject:

swetepete, fun-funny has a very different grammar.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

J.B. Clamence · Joined: 15 Jan 2003