/lit/ - Literature

>>15274330
I mean, there is 'water' as a verb.

>>15274330
There is. It's called quench.

the word is dethirst
I dethirsted that bitch

>>15274330
> mfw russian has that word
hehe.. silly anglos

>>15274330
the word is sneed

beverages are gay

>>15274425
pretty much every fucking language besides english has that word
russian is still a baby language in regardless to richness of expressions and complexity

>>15274330
Bro. Beer me.

I assume because one wouldn't give a domesticated animal anything other than water to drink (why 'water' is a verb) but would feed them lots of different things. Idk tho look it up

Man: "I am thirsty, waiter."

>>1527435
Waiter 1: "Let me quench you."

>>15274342
Waiter 2: "No, let me water you."

>>15274480
>russian is still a baby language in regardless to richness of expressions and complexity
in your words you're Leo Tolstoy, in your deeds you're a mere dick

>>15274330
Because there are other ways to get the concept across

>here's some water

>>15274425
what's the Russian word?

>>15274330
Yeah I drenk my baby the other day
Please, allow me to dreenk you

>>15274546
Here's some food. Now your argument falls apart.

>>15274548
пoи́ть (imperfect), нaпoи́ть (perfect)
abundance of suffixes and prefixes makes russian verbs really volatile. you can express an action precisely in just one word without relying on prepositions, context or word order

>>15274330
Because the English language wasn’t intentionally designed, but rather evolved based on the communication needs of its speakers. It isn’t hard to express the idea of giving someone a drink, even though there isn’t a dedicated verb, so no one ever needed to create one.
>>15274351
“Feed” takes the person being fed as its object, rather than their hunger, while “quench” takes a person’s thirst rather than the person themselves. In fact, to feed a person’s hunger is most plausibly interpreted as increasing their hunger, while quenching their thirst diminishes it.

>>15274994
Why is there a dedicated verb such as "feed" then?

>>1527450
À boire !
Laissez-moi vous rafraîchir.

It's baptize

>>15275050
English has that same word, Im sure taken from French. Let me refresh you sounds a bit odd but you could say it. I think it might actually be used in restaurant type situations for a waiter refilling your drink.

>>15274508
À boire !
Laissez-moi vous rafraîchir.

>>15274330
Just say "give a drink." You don't need a word for everything.

>>15274480
Spanish doesn't and I guess all the other romance languages don't have one either.

>>15274330
"let me wet your whistle"
>>15274458
I remember this joke from somewhere. care to explain?

>>15275042
Because people found it practical enough to keep using. If you’re especially curious you can look into its specific etymology, but in general languages develop by a process analogous to natural selection (words and other linguistic structures being selected for their practicality, or literally for their tendency to be used), so it’s unsurprising that multiple structures exist that serve similar purposes

>>15274330
I lol’d seeing this on the catalog

>>15274330
You can use "to glass" as an alternative: "Glass him."

>>15276346
Based loler.

Anyone know why "I am hungry/thirsty" is used in english and german instead of "I hunger/thirst"?

>>15274330
>what is drench

>>15276498
I thirst is also acceptable

>>15276498
Germans don't say that, they say, "Ich habe Hunger," which literally means, as it does for most languages, "I have hunger."

>>15276498
I always found that stuff funny. I learned in French class that they say I have hot or I have cold to mean I'm hot or cold. If you were to say it literally in French as I'm hot/cold, you are saying that you are either horny or turned off.

>>15276498
'I hunger' sounds very intense and possibly psychopathic

>>15274330
Food, feed
Drink, dreed
Simple as

Slake might be the word you're looking for

>>15276363
>hey, glass that man
>ok

>>15278151
You've clearly never been in a bar fight, that's a bottle

the word is imbibulate

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KHAU3ZRIg

>>15278265
>You've clearly never been in a bar fight,
you have?

>>15278385
No.

>>15278405
then how do you know? bitchboy

>Sincerely, bitchboy

>>15275128
it used to be called chuck's feed and seed

bump

isn't feed used for both food and drink i.e. liquid and solid
example, water feed

>feed the hungry
>shelter the homeless
>clothe the naked
>ransom the captive
>visit the sick
>bury the dead
.
.
.
>give drink to the thirsty

>>15274330
>Mommy breastfed her baby.
The verb here literally means to give a drink to someone. Case closed.

>>15274480
>russian is still a baby language in regardless to richness of expressions and complexity
Lmao. Anglocuck cope.