Re: lei skami tanru pe ma'a

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@xxxxxxx.xxxx]

>From: xod <xod@bway.net>
>
>Question: is a programmer is le platu, le zbasu, or le finti?
>
>I think a software designer/architect is le finti or le platu, and an 
>implementer is le zbasu.

Sounds right. I suppose it depends on which aspect of
programming you want to emphasize.

>In this case, pagbu is probably sufficient. Do you think that pagbu can 
>always represent "aspect"?

No, I think the best general purpose translation
of "aspect" is {jvinu}. Different aspects of
something are the different ways the same thing looks
like when seen from different angles or under a
different light.

>By the way, Multimedia = vrici selcusku not vrici velcusku, right?

velcusku is the medium. selcusku is the message.

> > Then {datni} sounds more like information, if you look
> > at its x2 and x3 places. Maybe something using {selci}
> > for data?
>
>One option is to assume that the writers of the gismu list didn't quite 
>understand the subtle difference between data and information/facts,

A safe assumption, but it's a subtle difference which is not
really made outside of computer science. If you look at most
gismu you will see that each of them covers a pretty wide
range of meaning, they were not really supposed to make the
kind of specific fine distinction you're making here.

>and that datni really means data. Who is the "authority" on such issues?

The users of the language are the final authority. I doubt
users in general will worry too much about the difference
you want between data and information. In English the
distinction is not made outside of computer science either.
Since it was more or less artificially introduced in English,
you can do the same in Lojban through your lexicon, and see
if Lojnanist computer scientists adopt it.

>Or we could use data = datni selci

I think that is pretty clear.

>XML describes HTML; a specification for HTML can be written using XML. In 
>any case, meta is not membership or subsetness, so it must get its own 
>brivla.

Maybe {vasru} then.

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