Re: cigarette is always not smoked

Hi

In Irish tobacco used (until about 1960!) to be drunk. Now it's worn,
as in "to wear a jacket" - that wear.

So "He smokes" was previously: "ólann sé tabac" . Now it's "caitheann
sé tabac". Remember - Irish is VSO - Verb, Subject, Object.

Eoin

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:

>
> Laudable social message. I am a non smoker too.
>
> Kishore patnaik
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
>
> > The same was true in many European languages when the
> > first fools brought back that poison. In Spanish and
> > English they used words meaning "to drink".
> > In some SE Asian and Native American languages