Re: unlurking and lujvo

[xod <xod@bway.net>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 Pycyn@aol.com wrote:

> From: Pycyn@aol.com
> 
> I decided to unlurk to get and give some info, but the recent stuff in the 
> archive prompted a brief greeting.
> The kennings, which *look like* left-brain simulations of right-brain 
> functions, did serve to remind me to recall to us left-brainers that the 
> ideal in lujvo has always been not definitions but telling metaphors.  



I agree with you here. There is an elegance in mutymi'i (immaterial
machine) as a lujvo for "computer program", that vricyvelskuselnirna
(varied-content nervous-system) lacks as a lujvo for "www".

Your input on this issue would be greatly appreciated. For instance, what
metaphor for the Web occurs to you?



> Comments back in the exchanges about computer terminology suggested that this 
> ideal had been lost (yet again  -- though the previous deviations did not 
> generally survive).  



"previous deviations"?



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