bored/boring If I had one penny for how many times I heard foreign students use these two words I could retire comfortably. Let's look at the meanings of these two sentences. "I am bored" This means that I have nothing interesting to do and I dfo not like it. "I am boring" This means I make others bored! Like the tiresome professor with his long and uninteresting lecture that makes his students fall asleep. In my long experience teaching English in Japan and Sweden I remember that many times students say I am boring when they mean that they are bored! John