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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> I'm saying that "she was
> beginning to get tired of sitting there doing nothing" does not
> evoke the idea of "mental tiredness" to me at all; it looks to me
> like slang for "she was beginning to get bored".

It is not slang in English. You may argue that it is not covered by
the Lojban meaning of "tatpi", but it is most certainly covered by the
meaning of "tired" in English.

> I certainly *would* use tatpi for mental tiredness; that's not what
> that line says to me.

OK, I ask again, what would you use for the wanted sense of "tired" in
Lojban? (She has been sitting there bored stiff for a while, and is
beginning to get tired of that.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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