From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 22 08:25:38 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FBwo6-0002PS-QJ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:25:38 -0800 Received: from [166.82.175.165] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FBwo3-0002PJ-Tt for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:25:38 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A613F1B37; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:25:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Wrestling with words: IT technical and business Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:25:28 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <43FC7BD2.9070806@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <43FC7BD2.9070806@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602221325.30137.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 3070 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:57, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > Those lists are not yet that comprehensive, unfortunately, on the one > hand. On the other hand, I found two words that I was interested in, > which are seltcana (Network it its broadest sense) and velsku (a medium > of expression). > > Well, to me a network is a medium which I use to exchange information. > So what would be the difference between a seltcana and velsku? Would > velsku be a special form of a seltcana? Neither is a special form of the other. A seltcana is anything that can be represented as a graph in graph theory. This includes the Internet, the set of airports and their connecting flights, and the set of post offices and post roads. A seltcana can be a velsku; a piece of paper and the air can also be velsku. phma