[lojban] Re: open and save]

[Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>]

> (robin <lojban-out@lojban.org>):
> 
> 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.

Seems to me the right metaphor for opening/closing a file is
{kalri} and {ganlo}: we're not opening a container so much as we're
being granted access (where the "door" is access rights, etc.),
allowing information to flow between program and disk.  That makes
the button labels {kargau} and {ga'ogau} (perhaps with {pe'a} if
desired).

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