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> 'Boring' is not the polar opposite of zdile! (This way, you use
> tol- like Esperanto mal-, I thought lujvo-making was somewhat less
> trivial).

Well, in Esperanto there's "teda", I don't think "malamuza" is used
at all.

What does {tolzdile} mean, then? And how do you propose to say "boring"?
Notice that {zdile} is amusing/entertaining, not amusing/funny.

In any case, I really don't see much difference between Esperanto mal- and
Lojban tol-.

Jorge