[lojban] Re: open and save

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

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:57:21AM -0600, Steven Belknap wrote:
> The use of the lojban word <dacru> for a computer file is not
> malglico. The analogy of computer file to a paper file is a
> language-independent extension of the concept of file to cyberspace.

That is *such* incredible crap.  There are hundreds of languages that
don't even have the *concept* of a file folder.

And dacru isn't a file in that sense anyways, it's a drawer.  A
*physical* drawer.  A *sliding* *compartment*, for crying out loud.

> <vreji> is not an apt lojban word for file. A file *contains* records.

Umm, BS.  Unless you're defining record as an ASCII character or
something, I assure you, the vast majority of my files do not, in fact,
contain records.  They are records (i.e. permanent-ish storage) of data.

-Robin

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