From sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru Mon Feb  7 03:42:46 2000
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:42:46 +0000 (MSK)
From: sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru
Subject: And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone'
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Ivan Derzhanski wrote:

>Never mind `fun'; why is there no word for `meal' in Russian
>(or Bulgarian, or many other languages for that matter)?  

Yes, I had a tough time trying to translate the gismu "sanmi" for my 
Lojban-Russian dictionary (my current project, far from completion).
After all, I came up with "trapeza", a word rarely used in modern language
but the nearest thing to "meal" I could think of.

Evgueni Sklyanin