| In a message dated 9/12/2002 1:53:18 AM Central Daylight Time, lojban-out@lojban.org writes: << Why not just use .a'ucu'i? The refgramm glosses it as "no interest". If you want to be even more particular you could use .a'ucu'iro'e or any of the other emotional catagories. << In the context, "no interest" means something like "doesn't care one way or the other" whereas one part of boredom is a marked dislike (not repulsion, just that one is uncomfortable). To be sure, one way that something can be boring is to be about something one doesn't give a damn about, but the two are separate emotions (or whatever they are). |