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Re: [lojban] squid ink



On 7/16/05, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> wrote:
Can it be called {kalmari xinmo}? And can a squid pen be called {kalmari
penbi}? Squids have pen (their internal shell/skeleton) and ink, but they
don't write.

Hm. The two senses of the word (in English) intersect because cuttlefish ink, I think, was once a source of sepia. But I don't think that's enough to justify use of {xinmo} here. How about {kalmari ximsmi} or {kalmari ke bandu ximsmi} ?