On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Oren
<get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/4/15 Oleksii Melnyk <lamelnyk@gmail.com>:
> my guess: native jbopre, urged to express some exact attitude,
> not yet covered by the vocabulary, will use "sei" or "to", describing it.
I'll make note of that. =p
> "never mind" is "covered",
my only residual query: do you see any "never mind" polysemy here?
case 1
A: What was that you just said?
B: Never mind.
case 2
A: What kind of breaks are the safest?
(Brakes, not breaks. Breaks = "resting periods" or, as a verb, "is destroyed".)
B: Never mind that; just remember to wear a helmet!
When you say { ju'inai } covers 'never mind' I agree in case 1, but
feel suspicious about case 2, where my interpretation is that the
attitudes reflect importance for consideration/remembering of
something.