From phma@oltronics.net Sun May 06 13:18:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 6 May 2001 20:18:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 33055 invoked from network); 6 May 2001 20:13:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 May 2001 20:13:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.23) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 May 2001 20:13:36 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7F2183C577; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:11:23 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Another computer word Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 16:10:16 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20010506152019.A673@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010506152019.A673@twcny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050616112301.24005@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat 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