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Re: [lojban] Re: Alice - the xorlo version
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:32:51PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>
>> 4. to have one's appreciation, interest, patience, etc.,
>> exhausted; become or be weary; become bored (usually fol. by of ):
>> He soon tired of playing billiards."
>
> To me, that's polysemy; I would never describe boredom as
> "exhaustion of patience", and even if I did, it's nothing like being
> physically tired, which is what tatpi is for IMO.
Boredom could be exhaustion of interest rather than of patience.
Exhaustion of patience would be "he's tired of all the arguing" for
example.
> Whether I'm bored has nothing at all to do with patience, it has to
> do with whether I'm receiving interesting input.
Yes.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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