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Discussion of "japyvla"
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Comment #9: Re: Calque
gleki (Fri May 15 19:09:42 2015)

durka42 wrote:
> Wuzzy wrote:
> > > What about when a "password" is actually a picture, or a geometric
> > pattern
> > > (like on an Android phone), or a biometric?
> >
> > Invent a new word for it. :P
>
> Yeah. I am thinking there could be a (short) word for "thing you do to
get
> access to a system", to which I could append -vla, -xra, -tai, -mivdatni,

> or whatever. sei ca ca'o pensi
>
> > It makes sense to make a distinction between password (in the sense of
> > ???character sequence???) and ???something you do in order to get
access
> to
> > a system???.
> > But if you want to really generic (like you suggested), you might
> probably
> > just use jaspu.

For Tatoeba and Vivaldi I always used cmene/ckiku for
"login"/"password".

I dont see any metaphorics here. Just ckiku needs to be defined broader in
English without limiting to things that one can touch.

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