From sentto-44114-2066-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Thu Feb 24 06:49:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 15146 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 06:49:47 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 06:49:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 22105 invoked by uid 40001); 24 Feb 2000 06:53:08 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 22102 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 06:53:08 -0000 Received: from hl.egroups.com (208.48.218.14) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 06:53:08 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2066-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by hl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 24 Feb 2000 06:53:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 2214 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 06:53:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 24 Feb 2000 06:53:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2.onelist.org with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 06:53:03 -0000 Received: from calum (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA12550 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:53:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002240653.BAA12550@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: lojban@onelist.com In-Reply-To: Message from reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:42:55 MST." MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@onelist.com; contact lojban-owner@onelist.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@onelist.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:53:00 -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Subject: Re: [lojban] Digest Number 372 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Robin Lee Powell >From: reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca > >> > Is this good or bad? I cannot say. But we can't stop it from happening, >> > so in that sense kanro is *potentially* that broadly defined if people use >> > it that way. >> > >> >> A virus is not just an organism, but a living thing. A computer virus, on >> the other hand, is just code. So, wouldn't it be possible to make some sort >> of compound word? >> >> I really don't know that much about Lojban, but couldn't it be formed by the >> combining forms of Computer + Virus? >> >> Or have I totally misunderstood the system? :) > >Well, on the one hand, you're right that it would be possible (and in most >cases desirable) to use a lujvo (samvidru). However, a "computer-virus" is >just a kind of virus, even if it's a metaphorical virus; "vidru" would >therefore have to include the sense of computer virus. >Lojban gismu are intentionally veeerrry broadly-defined. Note also that you will got lots of argument from biologists as to whether viruses are 'alive' or not, and that any definition of virus in English that does not specifically refer to DNA or cellular structure in pretty much guaranteed to match any computer virus point for point. For further ruminations on why 'a computer virus is just code' doesn't really hold water, look up The Tierra Project. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. As a member of the Hans Solo School of Action Before Thought, Welcome, You've Got Male. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shabang!com is the place to get your FREE eStore, Absolutely FREE Forever. If you have any desires to sell your products or services online, or you want to expand your customer base for FREE, Come check out Shabang!com FREE eStores! http://click.egroups.com/1/1299/1/_/17627/_/951375183/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com