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

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder
- LLG <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> la gleki wrote:
>
> BTW, another borderline case I should have mentioned.  It was asserted by
> someone that "buckwheat" (xruba) is not a grain, and thus would not normally
> be in this category.  Americans would probably think of rhubarb as a fruit,
> since we only know of it in pies.  But in fact mw.com does say that the seed
> of the buckwheat plant is used as a cereal grain (presumably buckwheat
> pancakes are made of xruba pesxu).  That buckwheat is a staple grain in
> Russia and other parts of Eurasia is why we added a gismu for the
> rhubarb/buckwheat plant.
>
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buckwheat?show=0&t=1367532771

xruba includes both rhubarb (sometimes used in fruitlike ways) and
buckwheat; neither is botanically a grain, but it's certainly true
that the culinary uses of buckwheat are entirely grain-like, leading
to breadlike products including the aforementioned pancakes and soba
noodles.

 - mi'e .kreig.daniyl.

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