From rob@twcny.rr.com Sun May 06 12:30:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 6 May 2001 19:30:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 57189 invoked from network); 6 May 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 May 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.121) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 May 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f46JSId20425 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 15:28:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.101]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 15:20:56 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14wU4p-0000B2-00 for ; Sun, 06 May 2001 15:20:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 15:20:19 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Another computer word Message-ID: <20010506152019.A673@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer I had been using {selmi'e} for "command" in my Lojban translation of GNOME 1.4, until I actually looked at the place structure for {minde}: x1 issues commands/orders to x2 for result x3 (event/state) to happen; x3 is commanded to occur So the {selmi'e} would be the shell or the operating system. But what do you call the command itself? {termi'e}? {nunmi'e}? -- Rob Speer