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Subject: [lojban] Re: open and save
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Newton, Philip wrote:

> la camgusmis. cu cusku di'e
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:36:23PM -0600, sbelknap wrote:
> > > open is "get file": cpadacru
> > > save is "put file": pujdacru
> >
> > <despair>
> > Nooooooo!
> > </despair>
> >
> > dacru is *not* a file in a computer!
>
> And in any event, wouldn't it be {rodycpa} and {rodypu'i} rather than
> {cpabroda} and {pujbroda}? It's a file-kind-of getting IMO, rather than a
> getting-kind-of-file. (Though I'd be more inclined to use "read" and "write"
> rather than "get" and "put".)


You don't need to specify what it is that you're opening or saving. That's
for the file chooser to decide, it's not contained in the keywords "open"
or "save". So, {cpacu, punji}, or {tcidu, ciska}, {broda, vreji}, or some
{broda, tolbroda} pair for precise symmetry.



> > You want vreji.
>
> Or {datnyvei}, which is what GnomeNewWords has (www.lojban.org appears to be
> down right now, so see the old Wiki page:
> http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?GnomeNewWords ).



Or the most general term for "content": selsku



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