You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick?
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And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.
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i mean lemon water is still called water.
you don’t call apple juice apple water or sprite sprite water. i think the limiter is pretty naturally deferred in the naming of the drinks themselves.
Yeah but this is the same reason Pluto is no longer a planet. Definitions matter, and every single beverage that humans consume is mostly water so, where is the line drawn on saturation of additional components? We need a DEFINITE line. Also I am in the camp that every beverage is “[Additive]-water” and anything that crosses the “not-water” barrier becomes “soup” until it is a baked good or building material.
I purposefully called it lemon water. You could also call it lemonade.
but you do in other languages. Just because it's hard to find examples in English doesn't mean that the concept is unique.
Examples:
In fact if you start looking into the root words of things you'll find 'water' everywhere! Vodka, you guessed it, is based on the root Slavic word 'voda' meaning..... Water!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka
We're just talking about water here. This extends to literally any ingredient in any drink ever. If you start looking at other drinks you start finding strange things like Punch which may be from the Sanskrit for 'five' denoting the five ingredients used in it.