Did IndoEuropean drink chai?

MCLSWIUwhatever wrote:

>Add to that, some people's fascination with the exotic: for example, I
>heard it said that among English-speaking British troops in North
>Africa in the 1939-1945 war, the drink "tea" was 75% of the time
>called by the Arabic word "shai" rather than by the English word.

Funny. That reminds me of a special word here called "chai". Some
people haven't caught on to the chai craze though and they give you
a blank look if you ask for it at a restaurant so you have to resort
to the alternate phrase "I'd like some 'Indian spice tea', please."
so that they'll understand. Then there are the North American
offshoots from the adoption of this scrumptious foreign drink
from India like chai lattes, chai coffee, etc. Ah, intercultural
exchange... Gotta love it!

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>From: MCLSSAA2@...
>Reply-To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
>To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [tied] Re: A weak PIE adopted by the world?
>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:37:34 -0000
>
>--- In cybalist@..., jpisc98357@... wrote:
> > In a message dated 8/6/01 3:23:47 PM Central Daylight Time, pva@...
> > An analogy might be the million Vietnamese who migrated to the
> > US after the war being so influential that we started using the
> > Vietnamese words for Mother and Father ...
>
>These agricultural societies long before modern communications and
>industry etc were heard of, were very different from now. Society was
>very stratified. People had little knowledge of what happened 50
>miles away. No message travelled faster than the fastest foot or
>hoof or sail, and then mostly among the upperclass only. The
>PIE-speakers would have invaded and become the upper-class, married
>mostly among themselves, and kept up their own language for a long
>time afterwards. The tendency for people to "ape their betters" would
>encourage the lower classes to imitate the language of the upper
>classes. In the same sort of way, a probably quite small superimposed
>upperclass of Romans imposed a sort of Latin on the Gauls and made
>them into French-speakers. Sometimes the language of the land wins
>whrough, marked by the encounter with a mixture of words from the>Add to
>that, some people's fascination with the exotic: for example, I
>heard it said that among English-speaking British troops in North
>Africa in the 1939-1945 war, the drink "tea" was 75% of the time
>called by the Arabic word "shai" rather than by the English word.
>
>invading language: for example, PIE-speakers conquered
>Finno-Ugrian-speakers in the lands east of the Baltic; in the south
>PIE suppressed Finno-Ugrian and became Lithuanian and similar, but in
>the north the native Finno-Ugrian languages survived the encounter and
>became Finnish and Estonian and similar, which have an assortment of
>loanwords from PIE.
>

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