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I know English (tea), French (thé), German (Tee), Egyptian Arabic (shai), and Hindi(?) (chai).
Is it (pronounced) "shai" in Mandarin as well?
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Is it (pronounced) "shai" in Mandarin as well?
I remember my first experience drinking tea. My grandmother had dragged me along on one of her visits to a friend, which meant everyone else there was two generations older.
Normally that wouldn't bother me, except at this place everyone was expected to drink tea. No matter that I asked for water, I was given a cup of tea, and my grandmother ordered me to drink it, as it would be rude not to.
To put this into perspective time-wise... I was 16. The only way I got that disgusting stuff down was to remember the anthropology book I'd read (I took anthropology in Grade 12, as one of my options). The book was by Colin Turnbull and described his experiences in Africa.
So I told myself, "If Colin Turnbull could survive eating and drinking that weird stuff he mentioned in the book, I can drink this. Look out, stomach, here it comes."
Fast-forward 40 years... when I was in the hospital in January 2019, the only hot drinks I was allowed were either coffee or tea. I loathe coffee. If I'd been on any other ward, I would have had the choice of hot beef broth, but there's too much sodium in that to allow it to be served on the same ward with dialysis patients (not the reason I was there, but my roommate was).
So it was tea or nothing. And since I was in there to get my blood sugar under control, they wouldn't let me have honey.
I learned to tolerate it, with sufficient fake sugar to sweeten it. But I will never really like tea, unless it's the aforementioned cranberry tea - which I drink about once every several years.
Normally that wouldn't bother me, except at this place everyone was expected to drink tea. No matter that I asked for water, I was given a cup of tea, and my grandmother ordered me to drink it, as it would be rude not to.
To put this into perspective time-wise... I was 16. The only way I got that disgusting stuff down was to remember the anthropology book I'd read (I took anthropology in Grade 12, as one of my options). The book was by Colin Turnbull and described his experiences in Africa.
So I told myself, "If Colin Turnbull could survive eating and drinking that weird stuff he mentioned in the book, I can drink this. Look out, stomach, here it comes."
Fast-forward 40 years... when I was in the hospital in January 2019, the only hot drinks I was allowed were either coffee or tea. I loathe coffee. If I'd been on any other ward, I would have had the choice of hot beef broth, but there's too much sodium in that to allow it to be served on the same ward with dialysis patients (not the reason I was there, but my roommate was).
So it was tea or nothing. And since I was in there to get my blood sugar under control, they wouldn't let me have honey.
I learned to tolerate it, with sufficient fake sugar to sweeten it. But I will never really like tea, unless it's the aforementioned cranberry tea - which I drink about once every several years.
Hygro
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Love tea, oolong is my fav
Narz
keeping it real
They're referred to as tea, and labeled as tea and everyone except you calls them tea so they're tea.
I drink Chinese milk tea. (Black tea, milk and sugar in a weird ration of lots of milk.) A Chinese exchange student at the hospital turned me on to it a couple of years ago. It's very good, but I use Sugar-Twin, not sugar.
And @AdamCrock - in Ireland it is "tae."
And @AdamCrock - in Ireland it is "tae."
Zardnaar
Deity
Looks like Russian for cafe.
yung.carl.jung
Hey Bird! I'm Morose & Lugubrious
coffee is a fascinating substance. for some people the metabolic half life of caffeine is only 2-3 hours. other people's bodies are much less efficient at metabolizing caffeine and so the metabolic half life is close to 9 hours. yes, that means that you can feel adverse effects of a single cup of coffee even 10+ hours after drinking it.
one study on swedes and norwegians showed that some people could drink up to 7 cups of coffee a day without serious adverse health effects. yet some people show signs of genuine anxiety, heightened blood pressure, an unhealthy resting heart rate or get straight get diarrhea from just one cup.
generally speaking though, caffeine isn't harmless. it's a genuine stimulant and stressor with high addiction potential and an incredibly fast-built tolerance. it's more similiar to ephedrine than it is to tea, imho
I already acknowledged that practically everyone wrongly calls tisanes "tea", just how practically every single person I've come across wrongly says "chai tea" instead of chai. the fact that it's a common mistake doesn't make it less wrong, or your comment less irrelevant. it's simply a matter of terminology. feel free to call it whatever you want, I call it herbal tea myself because tisane sounds ghoulish and herbal infusion is too long.
chai means tea in more than a dozen languages! I wonder if there is an indo-aryan language root to that, knowing that those influenced everything from sanskrit to latin and modern day russian
that is lovely! did you know that there is tea that tastes like milk but without having milk in it? it's called Jin Xuan
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Oooh thanks! I'm going to have to see if I can find some of that!
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Well afaik "chai" in Polish means a really strong tea. And afaik convicts use is to somehow "intoxicate" themselves with it. Perhaps it works as a placebo for them 
Narz
keeping it real
If everyone calls something something it becomes that. That's how language works.
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I love Arizona iced tea, but the sugar content is insane. I have 1 or 2 every Summer anyway, 'cause f it.
sendos
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I love tea. 
I have tried quite a variety of teas. To name a few, I've had rooibos, camomile (sleeping tea), ginger, mint, green, lemongrass, strawberry, raspberry, blackcurrent, chai and sage.
I have also tried Earl Grey and English Breakfast, but I am not a fan of those anymore.
Also, I have never ever had coffee.
I have tried quite a variety of teas. To name a few, I've had rooibos, camomile (sleeping tea), ginger, mint, green, lemongrass, strawberry, raspberry, blackcurrent, chai and sage.
I have also tried Earl Grey and English Breakfast, but I am not a fan of those anymore.
Also, I have never ever had coffee.
Lexicus
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Used to drink em all the time as a kid but not anymore, lol
It is "tee" (/teː/) in Estonian.
I consume a lot of fruit tea (never heard of a word "tisane" before) - my favorites are peach and ginger-mango mix.
The kind of really strong tea @AdamCrock refers to, is called Чифирь. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir and there is nothing "placebo" about it.
I consume a lot of fruit tea (never heard of a word "tisane" before) - my favorites are peach and ginger-mango mix.
The kind of really strong tea @AdamCrock refers to, is called Чифирь. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir and there is nothing "placebo" about it.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
It is "tee" (/teː/) in Estonian.
I consume a lot of fruit tea (never heard of a word "tisane" before) - my favorites are peach and ginger-mango mix.
The kind of really strong tea @AdamCrock refers to, is called Чифирь. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir and there is nothing "placebo" about it.
It's a lesser known fact that Estionian people are actually more strong and ressiliant people than Polish ! ^^
Fun fact: Tisane originally meant barley water, then medicinal drink. Its use for herbal teas etc is just an example of the way language changes.
yung.carl.jung
Hey Bird! I'm Morose & Lugubrious
Barley water is still to this day a very popular drink in S Korea. You can buy it at every 7/11 as a soft-drink, oddly enough. I have had it and must say.. It's really quite good. old ladies and people on a diet drink it with hot water instead.
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