From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Tue Feb 29 04:00:31 2000 X-Digest-Num: 379 Message-ID: <44114.379.2092.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:00:31 +0200 From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: Digest Number 372 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 2092 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > From: pycyn@aol.com > > We sure can make a compound with the computer word. But we can also (these > things weren't called metaphors exactly for nothing in the old days) just the > word for virus and -- for the somnambulent -- throw in a "figurative use" tag > (pe'a-po'a on my ancient list). As for computer viruses not being viruses, > remember that viruses are scarcely more than code themselves -- a DNA stand > with minor auxiliaries, and arguably not organisms at all. > pc for an example of "official" metaphorical use, there's nirna [ nir ] nerve x1 is a nerve/neuron [body-part] of x2; [metaphor: information/control network connection] vidru seems to be an analogous case. In generel there seem to be fewer problems in extending "expert" terms to "folk" categories than vice versa. co'o mi'e robin.