Michael Snow wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/29/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Pop? Isn't that what you do to bubble wrap?
Coke? Isn't that a fuel made from heating coal in the absence of
air, or
a slang term for cocaine?
Soda? Do you mean baking soda or the nonalcoholic part of scotch & soda?
I can't think of any other interpretations of "soft drink".
All it fundamentally means is something non-alcoholic, as in the opposite of "hard drink". Lemonade can be a soft drink (unless of course it's hard lemonade), but it doesn't qualify as pop or soda. As with freeway/motorway/etc., there is no single satisfactory term that both includes all that should be included, and excludes all that should be excluded. If you want to say carbonated non-alcoholic flavo(u)red beverage with absolute precision, that's what you have to say.
--Michael Snow
I can see them making space for that on menus world wide :).