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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 07:01:47PM -0400, Craig Daniel wrote:
> 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.

Yes, exactly that.

-Robin

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