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Re: CHAT drinking soup: (was: Malat (on behalf of Garrett))

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 23:16
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Raymond A. Brown wrote: > > Some vague memory stirs about my reading that some cultures use the same > > verb for the inhaling of tobacco smoke, but I'd forgotten that until this > > thread. I've never come across that in English usage. > > Japanese, for one. When tobacco was first introduced into the > English-speaking world, "drink" was the usual verb for the inhaling of > the smoke.
I can't remember which, but I read that in a certain African language says "Do you eat cigarettes".
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