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

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, 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.
Many African languages make a three-way distinction between "drink",
"eat something soft", and "eat something hard".  In some cases, the
choice between one or the other "eat" verb is idiosyncratic.  For
instance, in Nweh, the language I worked on, eating plantains is always
expressed using the "eat something hard" verb, whether the plantains
are cooked or not.

Matt.