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You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I purposefully called it lemon water. You could also call it lemonade.

you don’t call apple juice apple water or sprite sprite water.

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:

Agua de horchata
Agua fresca
Agua de Jamaica a type of tea
people are literally saying coconut water in this thread so idk what you think that is.
Agua de Valencia a mimosa style cocktail
Uisce beatha literally 'Water of Life' in Irish, it refers to Whiskey
Aquavit another spirit that translate... you guessed it.. to Water of Life!
Nước Chanh ... i'll let you google this one yourself 😉

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.

The word punch may be a loanword from Hindi पाँच (pāñć), meaning "five", as the drink was frequently made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, juice from either a lime or a lemon, water, and spices.