From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 15 04:55:13 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ILHSy-0007SR-Pw for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:13 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ILHSw-0007SH-6s for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:12 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1553178wxd for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=c4l96Iolisu86ZccggWE9uWLB2DVw4EwrRar9Ssu3fE3OiGMpW2ATPxXSf+HfDvY/bbhMUKfpWK55sO9p1cwpBQ6UUopjc9zYAwh9uYH8lZ2e5z9MBL/b6CtAnfieMrTYRNgjpAyd5ursSUlOafJb/095Q4hi9Fq1nA10355LxA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=M7Mcpl6t/GPp5EO4JlUWRvHZpgzx6kPxG04QdH+3x7kQkusRfKCyIx/hMjI6CzwA03AGiQOP1ksh2ZM5uWDRXfLVdDFX11YVh1DZulUL4bQ1N/32HHWqbfXKBEGCEa743Y7+3wyzAn+zS05xMWapSq2OCm91hGq/Q0HlQsxD1bk= Received: by 10.70.72.11 with SMTP id u11mr825154wxa.1187178908270; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.38.7 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0708150455q63589003qf7b714d797466d1a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:55:08 +0100 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners Subject: [lojban-beginners] "technology" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5368 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners mi'e vid The official lujvo for "technology" is {mi'irlarcu}, from {minji larcu}. I don't think this works for every case. Yes, "technology" seems to often involve {minji}, "machine", but not always. The definition goes like: "the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area" and "a capability given by the practical application of knowledge" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology). For that concept, I would like to use another lujvo from {tadji} and {larcu}, for example (though, unfortunately, {tadji} doesn't have a short rafsi). What do you think? mu'o mi'e vid