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

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:17:03PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> My problem with this whole debate is that I reject the assumption that
> there must be a single lujvo for "WWW".  A cukta-based lujvo would be
> the web viewed as a content-space, a munje-based lujvo looks at the
> web as a universe, a judri-ciste lujvo (order and conversion would
> determine the exact meaning) looks at the web as an address space.
> THEY ALL ARE VALID WORDS FOR WWW.  So make up place structures and
> collect an archive of all the suggestions.  The dictionary should be
> inclusive and not exclusive, listing all of them and then indicating
> why one would choose one word over the other.
> 
> ONLY if we get away conceptually from one-English-word to
> one-Lojban-word will Lojban not be encoded English, and the only real
> way to accomplish that is to have a dictionary that maps words in one
> language to multiple words in the other.

Those are really good points.  Thank you.

-Robin

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