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2014-09-10 17:36 GMT+04:00 Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>:On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:I can't think of anything better than that, honestly. Is there any language which uses a word that means something other than "open"? Can you express the concept you're talking about in any language that you know, in a dictionary definition way, as opposed to the list of examples you gave?The missing concept includes opening a file, accessing a webpage, opening a
cupboard, opening a book, or accessing a memory location. Opening a cupboard
is "kargau", but that's what you do to the door; I'm talking about what you do
to the cupboard. Any suggestions?Going way off the deep end, the act of opening a, say, cardboard box is basically transforming a hollow, convex cube into a concave... hexahedron?... for the purposes of gaining access to what was the interior, but that seems to me just a very esoteric and wordy way to convey the exact same thing "opening a box".
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