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[lojban-beginners] zo .o'o
The gloss for ".o'o" is "patience," and ".o'onai" gets "anger." For
".o'ocu'i" we've got "mere tolerance." I've been thinking about this
series lately, & trying to get a deeper sense for what it means, and
so I hoped .a'oro'a y'all could help me. What is this quality of
".o'o"ness, such that if you reverse it you get ".o'onai"?
What I'm imagining now is it's like a series of events is going on, a
process is going on which is causing the emotions in question. In the
case of ".o'onai," with each time the event happens, or just with the
continuing of time, there's this negative emotion, being frustrated,
angry with the event going on. With ".o'ocu'i," the event isn't
causing you any huge disturbance, so you can be OK with it going on
for a while, but it's not exciting you either, you can "merely
tolerate" it. On the other hand, with ".o'o," the continuing of the
stimulus is enjoyable, actually desired: keep on with that, that's fine.
Is that a good description of the character of the .o'o/.o'onai
spectrum? Could anyone else .io help shed some light on it? .i'i
mu'o mi'e bret.