Re: CHAT: browsers

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote:
> > Apparently, while at a German immigrant's house, my sister confused her
> > host by asking for white tea. Apparently the Germans call (once
> > translated) tea 'black tea' and white tea 'black tea with milk in it'.
> > (Recently, Lipton has decided to rename their tea to Lipton Black Tea.
> > Lipton just want to be confusing.
>
>     Perhaps they wanted to be accurate.  There are three basic kinds of
> tea, green tea, Oolong, and black tea, depending on the amount of oxidation
> it undergoes.  All of the Lipton I've ever seen has been black tea.
>     I've heard that in China the term for black tea translates literally as
> "red tea".  When I was in Japan I heard the three types of tea refered to
> as "Japanese tea", "Chinese tea", and "English tea".  (Black tea is
> actually hard to find in Japan, by my experience.  The normal tea there is
> green tea, although it's not hard to find Oolong, called, IIRC, "Urongu".)
>     ObConlang:  The Gladilatian term for tea is "wla vmo", literally "dark
> water", or "mehesnfe wla vmo", "dark water associated with humans".  Black
> tea is "slwla vmo", "very dark water", Oolong is "mrslwla vmo", "not very
> dark water", and green tea is "lrslwla vmo", "barely dark water".
But what about that tea they drink out of cow's horns and stainless steel
straws in Paraguay?  I've only ever had it once, but enjoyed it thoroughly.
They don't stock it in New Zealand, more's the pity!

Wesley Parish

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