From http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/willing
Adjective
willing (comparative more willing, superlative most willing)
There's also a noun and verb definition, but they don't seem to be applicable to this.
- Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.
- If my boyfriend isn't willing to change his drinking habits, I will split up with him.
--On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:38:14PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:I don't really like any of them, honestly. -_- Mostly including
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:41:16PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> > > <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The original was something like "I'm willing to carry you all
> > > > the time, I just can't walk any more". I got stuck on the first
> > > > clause.
> > >
> > > To be willing to do something you just can't do doesn't seem to
> > > take much commitment, does it?
> >
> > I was afraid that confusion would occur. I was still willing to
> > *hold* them, and even hold them standing up, but not to continue
> > walking (they wouldn't stop crying unless I was actually walking).
> > So those are two disparate clauses; pamjai and cadzu.
> >
> > > For "amenable" I use "bredi", but I'm not sure it works when you
> > > are unable to do it.
> >
> > Hmmm. Yeah, {bredi} is pretty good, thanks.
> >
>
> I'm not so sure about "bredi". There is a reason the _expression_
> is "ready, willing, and able" -- They imply three different
> states. I should think "willing" might be more in the domain of
> sarxe/tugni/mapti. I.e, my internal state is in accord with yours,
> whether or not I am actually able or prepared to do so.
{bredi}.
So, time for a new word? What does "willing" actually *mean*?
-Robin
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