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

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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