Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.)

[Allan Bailey <cqx@nefud.org>]

I'd like to point out that a "book" is a physical object.

"The Web" is an abstraction.  The "web" as it "exists" is nothing 
more than information sources (webservers, whatever) connected 
by *an* "internet".  The "internet" is nothing more than the inter-connection
of local networks to a larger network.

So, that said, "www" could be thought of as:

[information sources] [linked by network (electronic, carrier pigeon, whatever)]

( i can't think of good lujvo for the above bracketed concepts at the moment, sorry. )


I vote for leaving 'cukta' implying a physical object.

'cukta dinju' => ckudi'u  ~= "library"

maybe something like:  ckudi'u + [network linking concept]


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mu'o mi'e  zirbolc.  (aka allan)



Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net> wrote:
>>>From http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?ralcku
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>   1.  maldzena reservations about the virtuality of a cukta can be
>overcome by considering the modern meaning of the term "document", and
>considering a cukta as a collection of documents.
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>   2. The gismu definition does not refer to the cohesiveness often
>considered necessary for "books".
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>   3. Is a "single website" a cukta? Can a cukta be in hypertext form and
>retain its status as a single cukta? Is a Wiki any sort of cukta? Beware
>of importing the malglico semantics of "book"!
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>   4. Different websites are often linked together, associatively and with
>the cohesion of meaning.
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>   5. The linking of different hypertext documents follows the same
>behavior as linking to other locations in the same file, or other files
>written by the same author and residing on the same server. Whereas there
>is a conceptual difference between flipping a page in a book, and closing
>its cover and opening a different book, there is no conceptual distinction
>between following a link to a different location in the same file, and
>visiting a different "website".
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>   6. Therefore the semantic distinction between different "websites" is
>not always conceptually clear. Hyperlinked documents can be considered the
>same document, albeit not the same file. Authorship is the only difference
>between a single work, and a compiled, annotated work. However, a cukta
>can have multiple authors, and be created over time.
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