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Re: [lojban] Green chili and ginseng



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.