Subject: Re: [lojban] "boring"

From: Theodore Reed <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 03:49:12 -0700

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:21:53 +0200
"Newton, Philip" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Theodore Reed wrote:
> > Why not just use .a'ucu'i? The refgramm glosses it as "no 
> > interest".
> 
> That sounds to me as if I'm simply not interested in something -- but that,
> for me, is not the same as something that bores me, or that I find boring.
> "Not interested" seems more neutral an emotion to me (as befits {cu'i}), or
> nearly lack of emotion.

To me, being bored isn't really an emotion. It's a state of not being interested in what's currently happening.

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