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

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:47:15AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
>
> I'm still behind {pasta}. I'd be hard pressed to find a better
> word than that.

I would want to know where that word originated, how long it's been
aronud, what other words have been around longer, etc., before
simply importing a word from English.

It's not English. We stole it from the Italians. Who got it from the Romans. Who stole it from the Greeks.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pasta

 

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

It's a phase.  You'll grow out of it.

So far it's a 10+ year phase, then, since I've hated fu'ivla as long as I've been a jbopre.

 

-Robin

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