REM - Everybody Hurts

[Waawe]

Originally Posted by baqarah131

This is getting pretty long, but...

He's hurting (he feels terrible)
is better than "He hurts."

If you say that someone hurts, or is hurting, you mean emotional distress, unless there's an object supplied:

My wife left me, and I'm hurting.
He hurt his hand.
She hurt my feelings.
Don't hurt yourself!

cheers
edward

This was getting pretty long, and I had been hurting badly, but your answer put a stop to that. Its exactly the answer to my questions, thanks a lot, Edward.

Yours, Waawe

[Clare James]

But just to be really picky, if you wrote 'I'm hurting' to mean 'I am experiencing mental or physical pain' for a British English teacher, you'd probably get it crossed out, since you're 'not supposed' to use 'hurt' in the continuous form for this meaning. Just as I could happily kill Coca Cola for perpetrating the excruciating 'I'm loving it.'