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

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:07:29PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier, President and
>> Founder - LLG wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I've stayed out of this thread hoping that the obvious question
>>> would be raised:
>>>
>>> Can you or someone give a definition of a "noodle", making it
>>> clear what is and is not to be considered?
>>>
>>> Here is what mw.com has
>>>>
>>>> Definition of NOODLE
>>>>
>>>> : a food paste made usually with egg and shaped typically in ribbon form
>>
>>
>> *Why* do people keep talking about {pesxu}?  My noodles are *not* a
>> paste!
>
>
> But pasta IS "paste", by definition, whether your pasta is or not.  Your
> noodles are predominantly some kind of dasri, made of egg and flour paste.

I disagree. Pasta is a loanword from Italian, and the Italian word
means paste (or at least did at one time), but usually in English it
refers to an edible paste formed into some shape, then possibly dried,
cooked, or both; either of those processes will make it cease to have
a paste-like texture. Dried spaghetti in a box on the grocery-store
shelves are not paste, but they certainly have not ceased to be pasta.

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