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

JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:

> 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.
Common in the America's too.  I hadn't heard about it in Africa,
now I wonder about how common this is around the world.  Wish I had
kept all of the Papua-New Guinea grammars and dictionaries I once
had.
I had already included this 3 way split in my still unnamed faux-Amerind
polysynthetic language.  I plan to work on it a lot after next Tuesday
when my last paper is due.  It now looks like it will be the language
of the Adena culture.
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