[lojban-beginners] Re: confusing gismus

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

On Dec 30, 2007 7:47 PM,  <mungojelly@ixkey.info> wrote:
> Quoting Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>
> > 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.
>
> So human skin is "rempi'a" then?

It could be {remna pilka} or {remna skapi}, depending on the conext.
For example in this context:
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0411_060411_skin_book.html>
it would be {remna skapi}.

At least that's the theory. In practice I think most people just use {skapi}
even though {pilka} is wanted because {skapi} has keyword "skin" and
{pilka} has keyword "crust".

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