Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:32:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710091532.KAA28710@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com Sender: Lojban list From: bob@MEGALITH.RATTLESNAKE.COM Subject: Re: {le logjji batkyta'o morna} logical keyboard layouts X-To: george.foot@merton.oxford.ac.uk, lojban@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: (message from George Foot on Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:58:33 +0100 (BST)) X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1228 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Oct 9 10:32:43 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Firstly, is {batkyta'o} = button-board a sensible word for keyboard? You are asking if the following makes sense for what you want: a button/knob/[handle] type of board/plank [3-dimensional long flat rectangle] Note the use of the phrase `type-of'; this is almost always a good way to translate a modifier/modified relationship. Also, I find it helpful to incorporate the complete meaning in my English, not just the one-word gloss. For `button', you also have `knob' and `handle'; do those words suggest what you want? Do you think of a keyboard as a 3-dimensional long flat rectangle or as a curved rectangular piece? The definition you gave reminds me of the control panel of a nuclear power plant I once visited (the type of control panel the safety people rightly criticise, since an operator is more likely to pull the wrong knob than if the panel is more a mimic board). Or do you think of the keyboard by what it is used for, rather than its shape. What about keyboards that are not rectangular (I have seen them)? Best wishes. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com 25 Rattlesnake Mountain Road bob@ai.mit.edu Stockbridge, MA 01262-0693 USA (413) 298-4725