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Jeremy confronts English morphology.

Bored is an adjective (converted from the PSP of the verb bore), so it’s easy to get a derived negative adjective in un-. Which can then be interpreted as a form of a reversative verb un-bore. And the way is clear to a repetitive re-bore.

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