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USAGE: Words for "boredom"

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Monday, June 17, 2002, 11:41
Siyo!
I read that no pre-industrial culture has a word for
boredom.  (I even used that as a point in my paper on
Kierkegaard.  There is a scene in "The Seducer's
Diary" in which I believe Kierkegaard is alluding to
the idea that the concept of boredom is something that
could only be born in an industrial culture.)

Dana
Clint

--- Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 06:49:34 -0400 > > From: John Cowan <jcowan@...> > > > > Christopher B Wright scripsit: > > > ennui*. > > > > > > *I don't actually know what this word means. > > > > "Boredom". How it caught on in (some kinds of) > English, when there is > > a perfectly good native word with a transparent > etymology, is quite > > beyond me. > > Ennui is the word used by people who know more > French than is good for > them, and who feel that they're too good for > boredom. > > Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) > <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
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