Re: [lojban] Robin retry: noodle/pasta

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la .camgusmis. cu cusku di'e
> So while I *emphatically* reject the "paste"/{pesxu} thing, Bob is
> absolutely right that Lojban does not have to (and, indeed, should
> not) divide the world in the same way as English.

Absolutely. But...

> Therefore, I
> propose:
>
> grusko - round noodle
>
> grusri - flat noodles
>
> grubo'o - flat pasta, like lasagna and such
>
> grudakli - ravioli and friends
>
> grutu'u - tubular pasta (tubnu rather than slanu because it often
> contains something)

This is surely a possibility, but as mentioned before, not all noodles 
are made from gurni. We would end up with quite a lot of lujvo (shape x 
material = A *lot*) and would not be able to talk about "noodles in 
general", although this last point might of course just be the European 
in me speaking.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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