Re: [lojban] Re: Alice - the xorlo version

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:04:18PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 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.

I don't normally feel any experience like "exhaustion of interest".
I don't feel like there's an interest meter and an interesting thing
drains from it until I run out.  Either something is interesting, or
it isn't.

Certainly *exactly* the same thing over and over becomes
un-interesting, but that doesn't feel like draining of a limited
store of ability-to-be-interested at all.

-Robin

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