From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 06 06:26:59 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MZ2zj-0007qA-1p for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:26:59 -0700 Received: from dsl.zenzebra.mv.com ([207.22.49.29] helo=cmarib.ramside) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MZ2zf-0007pT-1p for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:26:58 -0700 Received: from cmarib.ramside (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmarib.ramside (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n76DQbeH014294 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:26:38 GMT Received: (from rusat@localhost) by cmarib.ramside (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id n76DQWnA014291; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:26:32 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: cmarib.ramside: rusat set sender to sunrise2000@comcast.net using -f To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Word translations... References: <43164.71949.qm@web55106.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <5715b9300908041912v3a8f4310h6d3142cf8187ce0c@mail.gmail.com> From: sunrise2000@comcast.net Date: 06 Aug 2009 13:26:32 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5715b9300908041912v3a8f4310h6d3142cf8187ce0c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <86ws5hoyyf.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 1998 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sunrise2000@comcast.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Luke Bergen writes: > could the thing about "close"ing a file be something that's being influenced > by culture? If you think about what "closing a file" really is it's really > more like "unloading a piece of computer memory". I have no clue what the > appropriate lojban for something like that would be, but it just seems like > using "close" is malglico > .e'u zo mu'opli I think that's really what's happening when a computer "closes" a file... ceasing to use it.