R A Brown wrote:
> > What about 'Tea
> > drinks more easily than water when you have a cold'?
>
> :-)
>
> Yes, indeed, although I have never heard that; but as we know from the
> frequent YAEDTs, it would be a misguided to say that would never occur
> in a language spoken over such a wide area as English is. Could any
> Romance language (or German) use a reflexive in that context (Tea drinks
> itself more easily....)?
Russian and Ukrainian do. "Чай пьётся" (chay p'yotsya) etc. in contrast to
"Он пьёт чай" (on p'yot chay) - he drinks tea.
-- Yitzik