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Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 18:59:09 -0400
From: Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Why is there no noodle gismu?
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Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:07:29PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG wrote:
>>
>> I've stayed out of this thread hoping that the obvious question
>> would be raised:
>>
>> Can you or someone give a definition of a "noodle", making it
>> clear what is and is not to be considered?
>>
>> Here is what mw.com has
>>> Definition of NOODLE
>>>
>>> : a food paste made usually with egg and shaped typically in ribbon form
>
> *Why* do people keep talking about {pesxu}?  My noodles are *not* a
> paste!

But pasta IS "paste", by definition, whether your pasta is or not.  Your 
noodles are predominantly some kind of dasri, made of egg and flour paste.

> They may have been once upon a time, but I don't describe
> cake as "a goo of milk, grain and eggs"!

"Cake" is an English word for a form often made from such goo (tapla in 
lojban).  And it need not be edible - a cake of soap being an English 
example.  Again, it isn't inherent to the concept of "cake" that it is 
edible, any more than "pasta".  You can add cidja into the tanru if it 
is important.

Of course, you may mean by cake "titnanba" which Americans call cake. 
While the obvious English word for that concept actually refers a 
particular kind of canti.  As distinguished from the literal translation 
for titrectu, which is grute joi sakta

Do we insist that Lojban words divide the world up as nonsensically as 
English words do?

lojbab

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