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By *good-being-bad OP Man
over a year ago
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Why don't English (speaking) folk ask for a milk coffee ? We don't walk into a shop and ask for a pint of latte please..
If I was in Italy and trying (likely failing) to speak Italian I might ask  |
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over a year ago
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Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words |
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By *MP3Man
over a year ago
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words"
How would you ask for pizza, mozzerella, pecorino or tagliatelle using the English language?  |
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words
How would you ask for pizza, mozzerella, pecorino or tagliatelle using the English language? "
As well as a menu, and a taxi |
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If this is the greatest concern you have, then you're doing alright. Most words originate from other languages and their variants anyway. How would you ask for food in restaurants which isn't English? |
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"I don't drink latte but i do refuse to ask for an americano ..i always ask for a black coffee, which is what an americano is"
Amen to that! ‘Americans please’ then get asked if you want it black and white....clue is in the title!! Americano! Lol |
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By *MP3Man
over a year ago
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"I don't drink latte but i do refuse to ask for an americano ..i always ask for a black coffee, which is what an americano is"
An americano is correctly pronounced kwaffee, Ms Kinky  |
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By *good-being-bad OP Man
over a year ago
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words"
as a lad growing up you asked for a milky coffee if you wanted a coffee made with milk rather than water.. latte seems to have been introduced fairly recently..
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"I don't drink latte but i do refuse to ask for an americano ..i always ask for a black coffee, which is what an americano is
An americano is correctly pronounced kwaffee, Ms Kinky "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words
as a lad growing up you asked for a milky coffee if you wanted a coffee made with milk rather than water.. latte seems to have been introduced fairly recently..
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Are you sure you don't mean a flat white |
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By *MP3Man
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words
as a lad growing up you asked for a milky coffee if you wanted a coffee made with milk rather than water.. latte seems to have been introduced fairly recently..
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term caffè latte was first used in English in 1867 by William Dean Howells in his essay "Italian Journeys".
I guess that's recent when compared to the Jurassic era  |
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words
as a lad growing up you asked for a milky coffee if you wanted a coffee made with milk rather than water.. latte seems to have been introduced fairly recently..
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But a milky coffee doesn't have foam on it like a latte does.... Different drinks my friend |
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"I’m less concerned about that than when they ask for a tall, medio or grande or whatever!
I go in and ask for a small, medium or large.
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Yes!
And the different chains use different terminology. Bloody irritating!
But I have nearly finished my transition, into a grumpy old man!
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By *MP3Man
over a year ago
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"Next time I go to an Italian restaurant I'm going to ask for minced beef in tomato sauce with spaghetti"
Steady there, mate. Less of the spaghetti and more of the shoe lace shaped carbohydrate  |
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"Because a milky coffee is called a Latte. We use foreign words all the time for different things.
You would have a hard time communicating if you only ever used English origin words
as a lad growing up you asked for a milky coffee if you wanted a coffee made with milk rather than water.. latte seems to have been introduced fairly recently..
But a milky coffee doesn't have foam on it like a latte does.... Different drinks my friend "
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