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Re: [lojban] Why is there no noodle gismu?
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
*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.
The spaggheti I buy is not a paste. When I cook it, it is not
paste. When I eat it, it is not paste.
The (English) dictionary says otherwise.
You might argue that the definition that I gave pesxu too strongly
indicates the texture/moistness and thus cannot be applied to the dried
form, but the English word paste (and pasta) can be dry or moist.
I even checked and the adjective form "pasty" doesn't refer to the
texture or moistness.
Seriously, what are you talking about?
Your noodles are predominantly some kind of dasri, made of egg and
flour paste.
*made of*, yes, but they are not themselves paste when I eat them,
which is the state I care about.
Sorry, but the dictionary disagrees.
Of course, you may mean by cake "titnanba" which Americans call
cake.
{titnanba} is perfectly reasonable, yes.
One of the earliest lujvo made in Lojban.
While the obvious English word for that concept actually
refers a particular kind of canti. As distinguished from the
literal translation for titrectu, which is grute joi sakta
Do we insist that Lojban words divide the world up as
nonsensically as English words do?
Of course not, but that wasn't my point. I want to talk about the
things I'm actually eating, not what they used to be at an arbitrary
time during their creation process. Spaghetti noodles are not
paste. Ravioli are not paste. Lasagna is not (usually) paste.
Fettucini is not paste.
Sorry, but the dictionary disagrees.
lojbab
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