Pet peeve of mine. I love this scene and is extremely funny, but what we call chai, they call massala chai, which means (paraphrasing) “spiced chai”. Is the classical process of “elision” in which a longer compound gets shortened either by removing or joining words.
Also, makes more sense for english, in which “tea” is not only used for the infusion of tea leaves but any (many? don’t know if there are exceptions) drinkable infusion. And “spiced tea” may mean something different in english 
whoever wrote the headline lost the opportunity to write “gold standard science” is already wearing tin 
Coffee 
Coffee is brewed, not infused. Though I have to say the difference is too subtle for me to fully understand.
PS: (I’m guessing here I could put a joke that in the US the coffee is neither brewed nor infused, but disgraced… but I kinda like american brewed cofee )
Gotta keep reminding them why it was called The Gilded Age, not The Golden Age.
One of my favorite examples of this is the situation with what the French call potatoes, and how that affects what they call “French Fries”. I found a comic which explains it pretty well.
I wasn’t aware of the further German elision. Also, nuance, I would translate “terre” as “Earth” rather than “ground” in this case. “Apple of the Earth” makes more sense to my English ears.
Not to wax too pedantic (or off-topic) but the two primary categories of coffee brewing are “percolation” (i.e., water passes through the ground coffee under gravity or pressure and extracts solutes from the coffee as it passes through) and “infusion” (i.e., the coffee is immersed in the water and the time under immersion is what extracts the solutes). There are some hybrid techniques that have both an infusion and a percolation phase.
Drip coffee and machine espresso are percolation techniques. Cafetiere/French press is an infusion technique. The Aeropress, for example, uses a hybrid approach.
There’s another one! Cafetière (which basically means “coffee pot” or more literally “coffee server”) in this sense is a shortened form of cafetière à piston. I’ll admit I didn’t know that one, and had to look it up
Thread hijack (probably?) over, although it’s much more entertaining/rewarding than discussing whatever TACO Donny is up to.
Also, fuck that guy.
Because of the extraterrestrial origin of apples.
Reminds me of (& may have something to do with) HAARP.
Actually, I guess the proper translation would be “apple of the soil”, as basically terre in this sense it means “arable land”. Earth can be a synonym for soil, so is still better than ground.
Now that you mention it, mexican coffe is also an infusion. So… we have coffee tea
I was thinking more of adding alcohol, but I love that wormcat
(Also I suggest we move all these conversations to the language thread!)
Two words: Pommes Schranke.
I wonder what it means in the context of the Star Wars universe, where “spice” is an illicit substance that’s smuggled by criminal cartels…
Kennedy Center subscription sales fall 36 percent from previous year
Sales for ticket packages across all genres are down about $1.6 million year over year, a window into the arts center’s challenges following President Donald Trump’s takeover.
https://wapo.st/3HkpwOL
(Gift link - the gift of req’d. login, IIRC, so here’s the archive link)
The caveat, the former employee said, is that the theater subscriptions have been on sale for only two weeks — and some of the advertising, such as the mailed-out brochures, might not have peaked yet.
I’m surprised the sales at Kennedy Center haven’t completely fallen off a cliff. I would have thought the overlap between (previous) Kennedy Center attendees and the MAGA agenda would have been quite low, and turning Kennedy into a MAGA arts center would have been the death of it. Maybe it hasn’t entirely sunk in yet, or too many events booked pre-Trump are still going ahead?
(The new head complaining that people upset with the MAGA take-over were “making it political” had my eye twitching.)
US Tariff Impact: Prices Surge At Walmart And Target, Employees Say—Some Jumps Top 38%
I was talking to someone earlier and they were saying that a Troubles era scheme for families and kids to travel to the USA had a problem for the first time: no host families in the US.
She was from the Irish office (in NI) of a US market intelligence firm and we always have long chats about what shit is going down and what it might mean. My suggestion, based on what I have heard Americans say recently, is that they may not want to attract attention to themselves. Hosting foreigners who could overstay might bring ICE down on you. You might look disloyal and lose your civil service job. Maybe people feel they have to buy tickets to the new MAGAdy Centre to prove they are loyal? That type loves giving money to their overlords rather than somewhere useful like a health system.
