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Inspired by 'converzatione' last night and added here as the Most Interesting Survey Question du jour:
Are adults who say "I'm bored..." actually just people who are boring (and/or looking for attention)?
I'm not saying they ARE. I just want to know what you think. Discuss below, using discourse analytical underpinnings to support your claim/s where necessary.
Happy Sunday!
posted by Lisaopolis @ 12:28
3 Comments:
omg, present and past participial nuggets, ELS Teaching Days, hearken me back to my "Past and present participals: Embrace the Difference in Meaning, Be Understood" to avoid embarassing, "I am not liking ziss clahss, I eem so borrink"...
Anne discusses her experience with boredom.
Part Un
Can we discuss what people mean when they say bored?
Unmotivated
Disengaged
Dull
Closed to
First person account: I feel completely uninterested in an organizational task that I haven't done. It would be productive for me to find some kinda In to this project. While I might mistake my feeling for boredom, I wouldn't call it BOREDOM because I'm stuck in it/ by it.
Part Deux
Reference to early childhood class:
Boredom has its place. Children need the opportunity to completely master a task. Once they've practiced something enough to completely HAVE IT, they feel bored/ over it and are ready to use their skills toward the next challenge.
Yours in discourse,
~Bountiful Mistress Crankypants
I just think that any adult who utters the words, 'i'm bored' aught to be taken out behind the barn and...
given a job?
Seriously, who has time to be bored??
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