Posted: Mar 04, 2019 2:23 am
don't get me started wrote:surreptitious57 wrote:It seems strange that in English soup is referred to as something to eat when it is a liquid
I wonder if this is because it originally comes from food : chicken / mushroom / tomato ?
I'm wondering here if the liquid versus non-liquid distinction isn't placed alongside the purposes of ingestion.
For 'eat' the purpose of ingestion is nutrition, but the basic liquid intake fluid is surely water, in which case, the purpose is not nutrition, but hydration. This would also go some way to explaining the 'take' setting in English for medicines as they are a third category of ingestion, neither nutrition nor hydration but curative.
Once I get thinking about these things, my mind goes off at all kinds of tangents.
I was thinking chewing.