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

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

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:14:52PM -0400, Stela Selckiku wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > That would be fine, if what was being described in the English
> > text was "tiredness from mental exertion".  It isn't.  What's
> > being described is boredom from *lack* of interesting mental
> > activity.
> 
> Clearly you are forgetting what it's like to be a child!  It's an
> incredible amount of exertion to have to sit around with nothing
> to do while your sister reads a boring book!

That's exertion to sit still; that has nothing to do with how I got
to be bored in the first place.

-Robin

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