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

Adam Walker wrote:
>
>  I haven't paid any attention to this thread until just now so I may
> have missed a previous reference to this or something similar, but in
> Indonesian/Malay one "drinks" a cigarette!!  Smoke is definitely
> non-solid, but also non-liquid.
Similar to Japanese.  In Japanese, the verb _nomu_ is used of
cigarettes, liquids, etc., it can even be used of solid foods such as
rice, if swallowed without chewing.  _Nomu_, in Japanese, means
basically "ingest something without chewing", while in English, "drink"
basically only covers liquids that sustain life, or are taken as if they
are to sustain life, so that poisons (unless delibrately taken - a
metaphorical use of "drink") and medicines (which restore, rather than
sustain) aren't covered, even if liquid.

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