From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Feb 23 11:15:46 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FCLwI-0001OG-EO for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:15:46 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FCLwI-0001O9-5P for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:15:46 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:15:46 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Wrestling with words: IT technical and business Message-ID: <20060223191546.GE3339@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <43FC7BD2.9070806@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43FC7BD2.9070806@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3074 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:57:22PM +0100, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > Dear all, > > being somewhat new to Lojban, I think I understood that using > Lojban would probably benefit both texts and user interfaces in > the context of IT systems. Anyone who has stayed around in IT for > a while knows that for many concepts in IT there are words - > basically metaphors - taken from the english language, such as "a > file", "a server", ... Heh heh. > Having had a look at the Lojban Wiki, I found two pages which > appeared promising to be: > > http://jbovlaste.lojban.org//wiki/Computer%20Terminology > http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Computer+terminology&bl > > Those lists are not yet that comprehensive, unfortunately, on the one > hand. No kidding. > 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? The rest of the places that each word has; i.e. it's a difference of emphasis. > Does lojban have the concept of subclasses as in OO, i.e. I can > have a gismu / lujvo explaining a broad concept (vehicle) and > other gismu / lujvo which describe more concrete instances (car, > truck, ...)? Absolutely. ro xumjimcelxa'i cu cecla .i ku'i na ku ro cecla cu xumjimcelxa'i -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/