From pycyn@aol.com Thu Sep 12 18:41:25 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 13 Sep 2002 01:41:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 61548 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2002 01:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Sep 2002 01:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d05.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.37) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2002 01:41:23 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.10.) id r.14d.13e2b353 (3956) for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <14d.13e2b353.2ab29c3d@aol.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:41:17 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] "boring" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_14d.13e2b353.2ab29c3d_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_14d.13e2b353.2ab29c3d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/12/2002 1:53:18 AM Central Daylight Time, lojban-out@lojban.org writes: << > 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. << In the context, "no interest" means something like "doesn't care one way or the other" whereas one part of boredom is a marked dislike (not repulsion, just that one is uncomfortable). To be sure, one way that something can be boring is to be about something one doesn't give a damn about, but the two are separate emotions (or whatever they are). --part1_14d.13e2b353.2ab29c3d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/12/2002 1:53:18 AM Central Daylight Time, lojban-out@lojban.org writes:

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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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In the context, "no interest" means something like "doesn't care one way or the other" whereas one part of boredom is a marked dislike (not repulsion, just that one is uncomfortable).  To be sure, one way that something can be boring is to be about something one doesn't give a damn about, but the two are separate emotions (or whatever they are).




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