Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets wrote:
> We can abstract away the concept of carrying from whatever we are carrying,
> or the concept of drinking from the necessity to have something to drink in
> front of us. Once we have done that, we can treat the concept on equal
> footing with more concrete things, and this frees us from the contraints
> ad-hoc gesturing suffers from.
> At the same time, English does ride or drive, depending on the vehicle,
> while French uses a single word "conduire" (which we actually don't use that
> much anyway).
And English uses the word 'drink' when the object is a liquid, and the
word 'eat' when the object is something else.
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Veoler