Re: [lojban] Why is there no noodle gismu?

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Buckwheat is not a grain, yet soba is still a type of noodle.

It's a type of xruba, which can be ground into a flour and used to
make pasta (among other applications).

>> Fettuccine are not cylindrical, but they're definitely a noodle as well.
>
> I'd say the shape of Fettuccine stills qualifies as skori even though they
> aren't cylindrical. Are there any noodles that aren't pasta?
>
> Because if not, I'd suggest using pasta as a gismu (because we don't have a
> gismu for pasta either, and the gismu {pasta} is available), meaning what
> anyone would guess it did, and then noodles could be line-pasta. (skopasta).

I'd be inclined to try a succinct type-IV fu'ivla, but yeah, I think
"pasta" should be the main gloss we're going for. Alternatively,
jbovlaste lists "pexfebdja."

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