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[lojban] Re: open and save
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:58:52 -0600, "Steven Belknap" <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>
said:
>
> Perhaps Maori does not have the concept of a file folder. Anybody who
> lives in a modern industrial state must deal with files.
>
Maori being an official language of New Zealand, alongside Englush, I
suspect it does have the concept of a file folder. Consider that the
subject of computing has been taught fully in the Maori language [1].
An online translation service [2] gives the following possible Maori
equivalents of file:
file The documents are collated and kept on file.
konae korero I wehewehea nga pukapuka ka puritia i o ratau konae korero
tika.
file Have you filed that copy of the report?
raupapa(tia) Kua raupapatia e koe taua kape o te ripoata?
How do other languages translate the concepts of 'file', etc in computer
terms?
[1] http://www.waikato.ac.nz/smpd/tetaka/TLDUconf.html
[2] http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/ngata/index.html
Chris.
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