Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:
> Hi!
>
> Andreas Johansson writes:
> > Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>:
> >
> > > On 2007-10-01 Adam Walker wrote:
> > > > The Chinese "eat" medicine. Crunch. Crunch.
> > > > Blluugghhhhh!
> > >
> > > The Finns too, apparently. To me the term
> > > implies a aquescence with a necessary evil
> > > which I revolt against.
> >
> > I'm not sure what language the second comment applies to, but I've
> certainly
> > heard _äta medicin_ in Swedish. In fact, I occasionally use it myself.
>
> Hmm, German does not do that, I think. It's interesting that the
> usual German 'nehmen', English 'take' has nothing to do with ingestion
> at all.
The *usual* verb in Swedish is _ta_ "take".
Andreas