Date: 2023-10-06 10:43 pm (UTC)
grayswandir: Chinese song lyrics. (language: 中文)
From: [personal profile] grayswandir
It made intuitive sense to me with 对不起 when I saw it on wiktionary, but then I read your comment and got all confused again, LOL.

Sorry! XD

Maybe something like "can't bear the consequences of" and from there to "can't bear to", which as you say does fit 对不起? Does that make any sense to you?

Hmm, maybe? It makes more sense than anything I've come up with so far! And I could imagine that as a natural progression of meaning, with the end result having sort of lost the part about consequences. I'll keep that in mind and see if it fits the next time I run into a 不起.
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