[lojban-beginners] Re: confusing gismus

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Dec 30, 2007 4:09 PM,  <mungojelly@ixkey.info> wrote:
> Quoting Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com>:
>
> > skapi (x1 is a pelt/skin/hide/leather from x2)
> > pilka (x1 is a crust/rind/peel/skin/hide/outer cover of x2)
>
> Here "skapi" is a subset of "pilka", I would say.  There's just a
> special word for the "pilka" of an animal.

One distinction is that skapi is a kind of material ("from x2")
while pilka is a body-part ("of x2"). So pilka only becomes skapi
once it has been removed from the animal it belonged to.
Somewhat analogous to the distinction between "meat" and
"flesh" in English.

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