tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094617656268260792.post3985977008867253599..comments2023-10-12T10:36:04.176-04:00Comments on Adventures in Food and Word: CuppaCrysta K. Coburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09506266003657248207noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094617656268260792.post-8580613985099282842012-06-22T16:24:30.752-04:002012-06-22T16:24:30.752-04:00I couldn't agree more with your poem, but then...I couldn't agree more with your poem, but then you have to be a tea lover to appreciate it.<br />MomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094617656268260792.post-24429404756869180772012-06-04T15:13:56.086-04:002012-06-04T15:13:56.086-04:00> A line of history and culture / That ties our...> A line of history and culture / That ties our globe together.<br /><br />Totally. The <i>World Atlas of Linguistic Structures</i>, most of whose chapters (maps) have such names as "Front Rounded Vowels" and "Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking" and "Relativization on Obliques", has <a href="http://wals.info/chapter/138" rel="nofollow">an entire chapter (map) named "Tea"</a>, explaining that it's "a healthy reminder of the fact that languages need not be geographically contiguous to influence each other". It's a brief and interesting chapter; check it out. :-)Ranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01369980917358096502noreply@blogger.com