(June 9, 2018 at 4:18 am)Mathilda Wrote: There is also though a historical use of the word milk to refer to any liquid that has a milky look and feel. After all, Coconut milk has been called that for a very long term. Pretty sure it's been used for describing opium in the past. Maybe the noun milk should be considered as deriving from a description instead.
If so then it's actually historically consistent to refer to Soy milk as milk, even though it's not the same kind of milk as milk.
Historical consistency has fuck all to do with accuracy. If people had been referring to dolphins as daffodils for the last thousand years - all the while knowing good and goddam well that they aren't the same thing - it would still be wrong to do so. Same with milk.
Boru
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