Re: Malat (to eat / to drink)

Didier Willis wrote:
> What about things that are both solid and liquid (e.g. soup
> with pieces of vegetables)? Here you *drink* the liquid part
> and *eat/swallow* the solid parts at the same time. In these
> cases, natlangs usually make an arbitrary choice.
I use "have", I neither eat nor drink soup - I "have" soup.  I may use
"drink" to describe what I do with the soup after all the solid parts
are gone.

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