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 …
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