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

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:47:15 PM UTC+4, aionys wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Craig Daniel <craigb...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpo...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:32:44PM -0400, Craig Daniel wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Jones <eye...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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."
>
> That's mine.  It sucks.

It does. It's better than nothing, but I think there must be a way to do better.

I'm still behind {pasta}. I'd be hard pressed to find a better word than that.

I'm not sure if you're aware of my hatred of fu'ivla in general?

uanai i si'anai mi je'u nelci lo brivla poi zo'oi VCCV tarmi ke'a

 

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