From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 04 19:33:34 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYWJj-0004Ai-N9 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:33:33 -0700 Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYWJT-00049j-I5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:33:25 -0700 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@iceland.freeshell.org [192.94.73.5]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n752X4ow026229 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 02:33:04 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.12.8/Submit) id n752X3os007412 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 02:33:03 GMT Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 02:33:03 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Word translations... Message-ID: <20090805023302.GA3121@sdf.lonestar.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org References: <43164.71949.qm@web55106.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <5715b9300908041912v3a8f4310h6d3142cf8187ce0c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5715b9300908041912v3a8f4310h6d3142cf8187ce0c@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-archive-position: 1982 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 04 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > 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". .skamyxatra No, "closing a file" means that the program closes the connection to the file that was used for reading from & writing to it. This connection can very easily be seen as a portal or passageway, and so "{ganlo}" (and thus "{ga'orgau}") is appropriate. mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- za'u da tadji