[lojban-beginners] Re: Wrestling with words: IT technical and business

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:57:22PM +0100, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> being somewhat new to Lojban, I think I understood that using
> Lojban would probably benefit both texts and user interfaces in
> the context of IT systems. Anyone who has stayed around in IT for
> a while knows that for many concepts in IT there are words -
> basically metaphors - taken from the english language, such as "a
> file", "a server", ...

Heh heh.

> Having had a look at the Lojban Wiki, I found two pages which
> appeared promising to be:
> 
> http://jbovlaste.lojban.org//wiki/Computer%20Terminology
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Computer+terminology&bl
> 
> Those lists are not yet that comprehensive, unfortunately, on the one 
> hand. 

No kidding.

> On the other hand, I found two words that I was interested in,
> which are seltcana (Network it its broadest sense) and velsku (a
> medium of expression).
> 
> Well, to me a network is a medium which I use to exchange
> information. So what would be the difference between a seltcana
> and velsku? 

The rest of the places that each word has; i.e. it's a difference of
emphasis.

> Does lojban have the concept of subclasses as in OO, i.e. I can
> have a gismu / lujvo explaining a broad concept (vehicle) and
> other gismu / lujvo which describe more concrete instances (car,
> truck, ...)?

Absolutely.

ro xumjimcelxa'i cu cecla
.i ku'i na ku ro cecla cu xumjimcelxa'i 

-Robin

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