Re: Interesting discoveries

 --- Garth Wallace wrote:
> Estel Telcontar wrote:
> > Differences include things like the three words for different kinds
> > of foods - solid food, liquid food with pieces, and liquid food
> > without pieces, and the fact that the pronoun system does not
encode
> > masculine/feminine distinctions, but rather distinctions of -
roughly,
> > at least - animacy.
>
> I like the three-way distinction in types of food. I'm
> curious...would "homestyle" orange juice (the kind with pulp) be
> considered "liquid with pieces"? What about foods that can be eaten
or
> drunk but don't have distinct pieces (like an ice cream float)?
I'm not entirely certain of how they would be classified, but at the
moment I think that orange juice with pulp would probably count as
without pieces, because its pieces aren't chewable, while an icecream
float would probably count as "liquid with pieces" - at least in all
the float I've consumed, there's been a mixture of noticeably solid
icecream, in one or more pieces, and noticeably liquid pop in the
bottom, as well as a lot of foam.

Estel

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