From hombre!uunet.uu.net!snark!eric Sun Dec 17 04:07:27 1989 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.7) id ; Sun, 17 Dec 89 04:07 EST Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA02857; 17 Dec 89 04:03:51 EST (Sun) Received: from bpa.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.3/3.04) with UUCP id AA21260; Sat, 16 Dec 89 18:20:10 EST Received: by bpa.bell-atl.com (Smail3.1.17.5) id ; Sat, 16 Dec 89 17:17 EST Received: by vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (5.51/smail2.5/03-15-88) id AA03279; Sat, 16 Dec 89 16:05:45 EST Received: by snark.uu.net (smail2.3) id AA13766; 16 Dec 89 14:53:10 EST (Sat) To: uunet!snark!lojban-list Subject: computer-network tanru Date: 16 Dec 89 14:53:10 EST (Sat) From: snark.uu.net!eric Message-Id: <8912161453.AA13766@snark.uu.net> Status: RO >So I would suggest that one build the Lojban word for "computer network" on >a metaphor more akin to "graphwork" than "network". Assuming that one wants to construe julne in the narrow sense, I agree with most of the rest of your analysis. I am still not sure we want to be that puritanical about gismu -- seems to me we run a risk of being so persnickety that they lose their intended power as a primitive-concept set. I think one thing this demonstrates is that we need a gismu corresponding to the English word "link". >>eric>>