Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:58:13PM -0400, xod wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:46:45PM -0400, xod wrote:It's like saying a pen is "a small cylinder with one messy end"
Robin Lee Powell wrote:As long as two lujvo are more-or-less the same number of syllables, I
I still think ralcku is asinine, though. mutmi'i I mind a lot less than I used to, although I think it's rarely the best choice for "software" (too broad).
Lujvo should focus primarily on use-function -- how it appears to the user -- as opposed to technical precision.
*utterly* disagree.
instead of "like a pencil, only with ink". One is more literal, but
the other is a whole lot more useful.
"Technical precision" and "literalism" are not the same thing. I find
the latter definition much more technically precise than the former
becase it encodes more information about what the object does (i.e. it
has more ancillary places that are relevant).
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