Re: [lojban] cidja

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ilmen <ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com> wrote:

coi ro do

Some times ago the question of whether {cidja} implies solid food only or includes beverages as well has been raised on IRC.

Let's look at {cidja}'s definition:

* "x1 is food/feed/nutriment for x2; x1 is edible/gives nutrition to x2"

According to this definition, it seems perfectly sensible to create a lujvo {likydja} (litki cidja) for drink/beverage, as those are also a source of nutrition (which seems to be the underlying concept of {cidja}).

Things like soups or baby formula are clearly likydja, but I'm not sure how nutritious things like vodka or sodas are.

 

{ligdja} (sligu cidja) could be used for solid food specifically.

gismu are intended to have broad meanings, and we don't have any brivla for "beverage".

What's your opinion on that matter? Would you agree that a beverage is a {cidja}?

"selpinxe" is the word I've always seen used for "beverage". That of course raises the question of whether something that nobody ever drinks can still qualify as a selpinxe, and whether something someone drinks but is not potable qualifies as a selpinxe. One way out of that is to say that "selpinxe" is not necessarily identical with "se pinxe".

mu'o mi'e xorxes 

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