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[lojban] Re: only one lujvo per concept?



Robin Lee Powell wrote:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:28:07PM -0400, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
wrote:
In a message dated 2004-08-12 5:21:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


I don't know whether a lujvo for "software" is better if based on
the function of software. In that particular case it might be. But I
don't think we can say that in general things are better described
by their use-function than by other attributes.
It sounds to me like there might be a whole range of lujvo for
"software" (or any other general concept) based on different aspects
of that concept: use/function/origin/purpose/composition/etc.

Yep.  Most of use use samru'e or samselpla, depending on whether it's
running or not basically.  mutmi'i is also used, but I don't like it
very much (too broad; applies to algorithms as well as code).

The breadth of a lujvo is whatever we say it is.

How does mucti minji cover algorithms more than skami selplatu, or skami pruce? An algorithm is a process; that appears as a keyword in platu, pruce, but not in minji.

If you were not a computer geek, why would you think of an application as a "plan/arrangement/plot/[schematic]" or any sort of process?



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