Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

"Uncarbonated lemonade" is redundant, as lemonade is not a carbonated
beverage. There are carbonated lemon-flavored beverages (usually,
lemon+lime-flavored), but those are not "lemonade"...



On 5/6/08, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> >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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