Re: [lojban] Re: "point"?

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

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:54:33PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 12/3/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've got in!  sinxa!
> 
> {farsni} has in fact been used for "object x1 points in the
> direction of object x2", so that would work for {le va grana cu
> farsni le vu tricu}

Doesn't help for the general concept I'm trying to get across, as I
thought I had made clear.

> So {farsni} for objects indicating, and {farja'o} for agents
> indicating, the spatial direction of something.

*nod*  Useful.  Thanks.

> > >     Page 27 references the book Accelerando
> > >
> > >     lojban.org links to Nick's Lojban pages
> 
> These wouldn't involve {farna}, at least not literally. The first
> one is covered by {sitna}. The second one is more like an access
> to, so it could be {vorme}. {vorme} is not unidirectional, but
> then you can always click on the "back" button,

*UGH*.  Even for you[1] that's a horrible metaphor.  The "back"
button does *NOT* make a link bi-directional in any respect
whatsoever.  If X links to Y, unless someone else who gets to Y by
some other means can *see* that X links to Y, the link is strongly
unidirectional.  Furthermore, the x4 is spurious at best.

-Robin

[1]: xorxes and I have a long-standing fight about computer-related
terminology.  I think his creations show a complete lack of
understanding of how computers actually function, and he thinks I
have a pathological fear of metaphor.  The truth is probably
somewhere in the middle.

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