Subject: Re: [lojban] Another computer word

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 16:10:16 -0400

On Sun, 06 May 2001, Rob Speer wrote:
>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}?

termi'e is the command that you tell the computer to run, and nunmi'e is the
act of telling the computer to run it.

phma