From gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch Thu Sep 12 09:10:05 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 12 Sep 2002 16:10:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 6960 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002 16:10:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Sep 2002 16:10:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta11n.bluewin.ch) (195.186.1.211) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 16:10:04 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (213.3.164.159) by mta11n.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 6.5.027) id 3D523C9E003051C6 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:10:00 +0200 Message-ID: <032d01c25a76$e47663c0$4da503d5@oemcomputer> To: "jboste" Subject: Re : [lojban] "boring" Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:10:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 From: "G. Dyke" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=81437350 X-Yahoo-Profile: gregvdyke la rizen poi a'o fraxu mi lenu mi reroi benji ti ri cu cusku di'e { > Theodore Reed wrote: > > Why not just use .a'ucu'i? The refgramm glosses it as "no > > interest". > > That sounds to me as if I'm simply not interested in something -- but that, > for me, is not the same as something that bores me, or that I find boring. > "Not interested" seems more neutral an emotion to me (as befits {cu'i}), or > nearly lack of emotion. To me, being bored isn't really an emotion. It's a state of not being interested in what's currently happening. } No, being bored combines two (three) things : - disinterest {a'ucu'i} - (complaint) {oi} - having to "actively do something" to avoid the situation {??} for this last one, I thought of {e'i}, like when you're bored during a lecture. You can also be bored through not finding anything interesting to do... I can't find anything for that. {u'inai} also fits in, like pc said. Various combinations of those (along with ru'e or ru'a if you're going out with le'e blonde or listening to people talking about baseball) should give you a large number of different emotions which we call boredom through lack of the appropriate words ;-) Greg -- http://www.myepfl.ch/gregory.dyke .i lo'e to'e makcu cu djica lenu tolcumla morsi kei lo telda'a .i lo'e je'a makcu cu go'i to'ebo le se go'i