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

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 1:00
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. -- "It has occured to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will." - "Lord Leto II" (Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert) http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor