From pycyn@aol.com Sat Feb 16 17:19:37 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 17 Feb 2002 01:19:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 33505 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2002 01:19:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Feb 2002 01:19:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m04.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.7) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2002 01:19:36 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.5.) id r.14f.90b7d4a (4588) for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:19:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <14f.90b7d4a.29a05f23@aol.com> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:19:31 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Green chili and ginseng To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_14f.90b7d4a.29a05f23_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13326 --part1_14f.90b7d4a.29a05f23_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/16/2002 6:08:04 PM Central Standard Time, phma@webjockey.net writes: > How do we distinguish green chili from green peppers? Both are crino kapsiku > > as far as I can tell. > Green peppers are green chilis of a certain strain, the Bell, which has removed virtually all the capsaicin and left something with a Scoville in the lower single digits. So you distinguish them by the second place of {kapsiku} just as you distinguish jalapenos (Sc 35k) from habaneros (Sc100k). Ditto, mutatis mutandis. The nut-and-berry merchants like to distinguish Korean, Siberian and New York (etc.) ginseng and there may be minor specific variations. --part1_14f.90b7d4a.29a05f23_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/16/2002 6:08:04 PM Central Standard Time, phma@webjockey.net writes:


How do we distinguish green chili from green peppers? Both are crino kapsiku
as far as I can tell.


Green peppers are green chilis of a certain strain, the Bell, which has removed virtually all the capsaicin and left something with a Scoville in the lower single digits.  So you distinguish them by the second place of {kapsiku} just as you distinguish jalapenos (Sc 35k) from habaneros (Sc100k).

<Is it OK to call ginseng {remgenja}? I just saw a book about it at the
library which gave the name in some Native American language, and it means
about the same thing.>

Ditto, mutatis mutandis.  The nut-and-berry merchants like to distinguish Korean, Siberian and New York (etc.) ginseng and there may be minor specific variations.
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