From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Sep 06 09:15:21 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 6 Sep 2002 16:15:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 3636 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2002 16:15:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Sep 2002 16:15:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2002 16:15:20 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA08170 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:26:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209061626.MAA08170@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:15:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] "boring" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:15:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Newton, Philip" at Sep 06, 2002 06:10:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Newton, Philip scripsit: > How to express (with an attitudinal) that something is boring? I would have > expected something like "opposite of interesting". > > .a'u is "interest" but .a'unai is glossed as "repulsion"... could I also use > it for "this is boring"? As in {.a'unai le veltivni cu spofu}? I think I'd use a'ucu'i or a'unairu'e. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know