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On Monday, June 22, 2015 21:44:21 Christa Hansberry wrote:
> I'm currently working through *Lojban for Beginners* and writing the vocab
> lists and my answers to the exercises in a spiral notebook.  I want to
> label it "Christa's Lojban Notebook", or something along those lines, in
> Lojban. But when I look up "notebook" with my Lojban dictionary app, all it
> gives me is "selbeiskami"; I'm guessing that's short for "se bevri skami"
> which is NOT what I'm after. So, I figured I'd try to figure it out myself,
> since apparently the authors of Lojban dictionaries are such tech-heads
> that they've forgotten what a notebook is when it's not a portable computer.
> 
> But now I'm stuck - Is a notebook a writing-surface type-of book (thus
> "terci'acku"), or a things-written type-of book (thus "selci'acku")??
> Originally, I wrote the former; it is a book that is a writing surface. But
> then I thought about the word "selpeicku", which L4B gives as the work for
> "manifesto" - and that is a book that expresses thoughts; one can't think a
> book! So now a notebook being a things-written type-of book, since it
> contains things-written, makes sense too. Though I'm still personally
> leaning toward the first one...
> 
> So, in summary, is there a commonly used Lojban word for a notebook (a book
> for notes, not a se bevri type-of skami)?

I don't know of a commonly used word. I'd say "terci'acku". As to computers, a 
notebook is a laptop of a certain size. I prefer "ploskami", maybe "paprybra 
ploskami" for notebooks. "selbeiskami" is more general and covers everything 
from a Raspberry Pi to an old model with a screen on the end and a handle to 
carry it with.

Pierre
-- 
loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji

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