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[lojban] Re: open and save



Bob LeChevalier wrote:
I would vote for "vasru" since I perceive files as a kind of container, too.


I kind of agree, but a file is more simply a girzu of vreji or datni.

Nora comments that while we focus so closely on "file", we should also focus on "open" and "closed". First of all, these refer to the state: open=ajar, closed=shut, so you need to make the agentive result to use kalri or ganlo at all. But in addition there is no obvious passage or portal which is "open" or "closed" when a file is open or closed - the metaphor works ONLY if you stick consistently to the drawer metaphor, and then it doesn't work well (a drawer is probably "out" rather than "open" in Lojban, a box lid or cupboard door might be "open").

Sorry to make everyone's life more complicated %^)

Do we really want to continue the metaphor? Isn't there something else which would represent the state of an open file (i.e. that it is currently being read from / written to)? "Active" springs to mind, except that unless it's an executable, it's really more passive than active.

mu'o mi'e solri


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