Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 16:42 |
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>On 05/05/08 22:02:39, John Vertical wrote:
>> Soda for anything sweeten'd, with cola (dark-colored, multi-flavor
>> mixture) and lemonade (light-colored, fruit-flavor'd) as its two main
>> subgroups.
>Strange then, that (normal, clear) lemonade isn't a kind of lemonade in
>your classification.
>Tristan.
Uncarbonated lemonade? I blame L1 influence here, we don't have that here in
Finland but we do have "limonadi" (and a half a dozen derived slang forms)
as the catch-all term for sweeten'd, carbonated beverages. I'd probably
consider your "normal lemonade" a subtype of lemon juice, were I to
encounter some…
John Vertical
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