From taral@taral.net Mon Jul 31 09:36:02 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14748 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2000 16:36:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jul 2000 16:36:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.taral.net) (128.83.253.154) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2000 16:36:01 -0000 Received: by mail.taral.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 64F3826333; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:35:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.taral.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5966124B62; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:35:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:35:06 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: taral@localhost.localdomain To: Brook Conner Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Computing in lojbanistan In-Reply-To: <39821E47.3BF7936F@concentric.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Taral On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Brook Conner wrote: > Let's take "File" "Edit" and "Help" - are they commands (as in > "Application, File something!") or categorical labels? In English, at > least, File seems like a category, and a poor one at that. Quit is > usually there, but what does "quit" have to do with "file"? Edit is at > least a collection of commands - cut, copy, select, paste. Well, in french these are: File -> Fichier: "file" (noun) Edit -> Edition: "editing" (gerund?) Help -> Aide: "help" (noun) etc... -- Taral