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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:39:18 -0700
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Why is there no noodle gismu?
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 Content preview:  On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:37:05PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
    > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Robin Lee Powell < > rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
    wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:47:15AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
    > > > > > > I'm still behind {pasta}. I'd be hard pressed to find a better
    > > > word than that. > > > > I would want to know where that word originated,
    how long it's > > been aronud, what other words have been around longer,
   etc., > > before simply importing a word from English. > > > > It's not English.
    We stole it from the Italians. Who got it from > the Romans. Who stole it
    from the Greeks. > > http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pasta [...]
    
 
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:37:05PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:47:15AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm still behind {pasta}. I'd be hard pressed to find a better
> > > word than that.
> >
> > I would want to know where that word originated, how long it's
> > been aronud, what other words have been around longer, etc.,
> > before simply importing a word from English.
> >
> 
> It's not English. We stole it from the Italians. Who got it from
> the Romans. Who stole it from the Greeks.
> 
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pasta

That was the question I was asking.  My only question, then, is is
there an older Chinese or Indian word for it?

Or, someone can just run the gismu alg and see what we get.

-Robin

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