Science poll! (topic: communication research. Pls RT for wider reach) Imagine the following conversation: A: "How would you like your coffee?" B: "I drink my coffee black". What most likely happens next?
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij
I think non-bilingual (because I am native) English speakers see "black" as neat aka unadulterated aka no sugar. But in Western Asia and the Middle East we have separate words for these concepts with relation to coffee. We have a gradient for how much milk and another for sugar.
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
In Cyprus we have sweet, medium, and neat, for levels of sugar, for example. And the same idea for milk: all milk, half milk, black.
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
I am sharing this because it really made me uncomfortable to see this as a native vs non-native English thing. It's wholly erasive to the multi-lingual and multi-ethnic experience.
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I did not even consider asking only native speakers (I’m not native speaker myself either). I was just interested in pragmatics (thanks for extra info!). I think JP restricted to native speakers?
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij
Yeah, it was in another thread. I just wanted to clarify one can be native as an English speaker but from a different ethnic group to "White British", for example, too!
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Iris van Rooij Retweeted Rabbit "Too Gay For Your Player Guild" Cohen
Absolutely. On point, saw this tweet come by earlier:https://twitter.com/bathyspherehat/status/1114609990357196806?s=21 …
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Rabbit "Too Gay For Your Player Guild" Cohen @BathysphereHatPSA: someone can be fluent in English and still have an accent that's not from what you'd typically consider an English speaking country. Indian English is a whole dialect of its own, and many people from India speak it fluently.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @IrisVanRooij
Yeah, this is why I have a Cypriot keyboard on my smartphone and not a Greek one.
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
What is "default coffee" for you? For me it is just black coffee, median strength, median size. But I learned about coffee via Turkey (my parents own a "turka" for creating stronger, smaller black coffee
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Replying to @DrVeronikaCH @IrisVanRooij
There are 2 types of Cypriot coffees the Ottoman style you just referenced made in a jisveh/briky (approx sound of Cypriot name of this smallish pot) made with finely ground coffee never milk and served with a glass of water and the frappé made with a mixer and instant coffee.
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For the Ottoman coffee if you're curious... Everybody has their own way of doing it but some say the foam has to rise twice. One person's recipe is here, although I bet YouTube is better for this: http://www.afroditeskitchen.com/2013/12/cyprus-coffee/ …
My parents own a huge briky that makes enough for 4. 
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Woah, amazon has a nice one. (Fuck amazon though of course.) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PCQGHD8/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?pd_rd_i=B07G3BMJ1R&pd_rd_w=c15F2&pf_rd_p=e2bfafb5-111e-4906-b089-5d691a51d45f&pd_rd_wg=7S9ID&pf_rd_r=ZB5T2P13XEGM26X3YCRX&pd_rd_r=4abf9885-591b-11e9-a1c5-e57361ece895&th=1 …
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Here it is in action at 0:11 "Black no sugar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y4mXqxJkUo …0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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