From xod@xxxx.xxxx Wed Aug 25 07:06:04 1999 X-Digest-Num: 221 Message-ID: <44114.221.1202.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:06:04 -0400 (EDT) From: xod 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"? ----- When somebody says, here is this nice thing that you will enjoy using but if you share it with your neighbor we'll call you a pirate and put you in jail, they are polluting society's most important resource, which is goodwill, the willingness to cooperate with other people. -- RMS