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

Craig Daniel wrote:

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.
You are disagreeing with the dictionary then. See above for "noodle" about which the same claim could be made as you do for pasta.
Paste can exist in a dried form or a hydrated form, and it is still paste in either case. 


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a : a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls
b : a confection made by evaporating fruit with sugar or by flavoring a gelatin, starch, or gum arabic preparation
c : a smooth food product made by evaporation or grinding <tomato paste> <almond paste>
d : a shaped dough (as spaghetti or ravioli) prepared from semolina, farina, or wheat flour


definition d is precisely the definition of pasta


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: paste in processed form (as macaroni) or in the form of fresh dough (as ravioli)



Dried spaghetti in a box on the grocery-store
shelves are not paste,


Alas, it still is.  It is dried paste, but still paste.

lojbab

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