[lojban-beginners] Re: "Windows Metafile Vulnerability"

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

Considering how much discussion in the forums of any artificial
language is _about_ the language rather than _in_ the language (and
therefore meta),

and considering how many words in the Lojban flashcards are defined as
"metalinguistic not," "metalinguistic yes," and so forth,

I am extremely surprised that a best practice for expressing the
concept of "meta" was not worked out decades ago. Here is a delicious
opportunity.

Perhaps some combination of {srana traji bartu ciste manri} would help us here.

-epkat



On 1/8/06, Tasci <lojban@synx.dyndns.org> wrote:
> * Jorge Llamb?as (jjllambias@gmail.com) wrote:
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> > A "metafile", if I understand the definitions I found, is
> > not a file but a specific graphics file format.
> I may not know lojban yet, but I can step forward for this.
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> A metafile, in the Windows sense, is a file that can represent a
> different file, whether a graphics file format, or a binary executable
> virus.  That's why people are so up in arms about WMF format, and also
> why it's so easy to write viruses for it. Purported as an image format,
> it's really more like one of those self extracting zip archives.
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> I might also add meta was originally Greek for "after, while, or
> beyond."  People since attributed it to also mean "self-referencing" as
> in "metafile" is a file of files, or "an abstraction on top of" as in
> "metaphysics" is the physics of physics itself.  Does that help figure
> out what metafile is in lojban at all?
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