Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 17, 2002, 21:23 |
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Christopher Wright wrote:
>Feilom "weary" also spawning
>lavom "spirit-weary", which changed to "bored".
Kash recently gained two words:
-- pondri 'bored' (related to pori 'tired'), and
--hañumbu lit. 'empty(yumbu) soul(hañu)', also glossed 'boredom' but
probably of a different sort--listless, at loose ends with nothing to do
etc.; world-weary or jaded, perhaps.
Ennui through the ages:
1. Simón Bolívar had a mistress; at one point, while he was off fighting
battles, she was marooned in a very small town, and wrote to a friend, "For
amusement, we conjugate the verb _s'ennuier_".
2. A lovely song, "Moi, je m'ennuie", sung by Marlene Dietrich on an old old
LP of even older songs from her European movies (20s/30s)-- it has a
wonderful little rinky-tink jazz break that sounds like something Kurt Weill
might have written. (And IIRC there's "World-weary" on one of her Vegas
albums. The perfect voice for such sentiments.)
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