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RE:snow cones for meals
The {sanmi} discussion under "snow cones," like the smelling of the noseless
dog, gets us into traditional ambiguities in English (or whatever) and how to
ditch them in Lojban. {sanmi}'s definition looks like a menu, neither an act
of eating nor what is eaten, nor yet (what seems to me most natural) an
occasion for eating (which is not easily lojbanizable anyhow), though closest
to the last, since it can occur even if no one eats anything. Note that all
four of these can be "meal" in English (and, with proper time constraints,
"Breakfast", "lunch", "dinner," "supper", and "snacks" -- even further
specified, as "elevensies", "tea" -- and "brunch", "lumper" and "brumper" for
that matter).