Subject: Re: [lojban] "boring"

From: Theodore Reed <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:20:33 -0700

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:46:29 EDT
[email-masked] wrote:

> In a message dated 9/6/2002 11:12:47 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> [email-masked] writes:
> 
> <<
> > 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}?
> >>
> Good question! It looks as though "interest" here (key words are not our 
> friends) means something like "attraction," which is certainly one sense of 
> "interest," though not the first to come to mind as an emotion. "boring," in 
> particular, lies in another direction, without the evaluative component (we 
> can be bored with attractive ideas -- or their expressions --as much as with 
> unattractive ones). Probably there is something to be worked out with the 
> dimensional emotive system, but no one uses it or can decode it on the fly 
> (and often not with the book in front of them), so that probably wont help 
> for "booooooring"
> {a'a} won't help, since its neutral position covers daydreaming better than 
> being bored -- for which one has to be at least somewhat attentive.
> Maybe a combination of {ueru'e} and {u'inai}?
> 
> <<
> And as for the adjective -- tolci'i? tolzdi?
> >>
> Both seem to work, though for slightly different notions, obviously. But 
> they fit in nicely with the suggested attitudinals. Probably {malslabu} 
> works for another sense.
> 

Why not just use .a'ucu'i? The refgramm glosses it as "no interest". If you want to be even more particular you could use .a'ucu'iro'e or any of the other emotional catagories.

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