Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

John Vertical 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…
No, normal lemonade is carbonated; "uncarbonated lemonade" is just as
strange a concept to me as to you. Normal lemonade is stuff like Sprite
and doesn't really taste of lemon (nor of "lemon lime" as Wikipedia
calls it).

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Tristan.

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