"Damien Kick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> This thread of conversation also popped into my head when I was waiting in
> line at the Starbucks in the building in which I work. I've been ordering
> a lot of Americanos lately. I always ask for a small Americano and the
> person taking my order always calls out my drink as a "tall". With respect
> to Starbucks, calling a beverage which comes in the shortest cup used in
> the store a "tall" has a perfectly well defined meaning. But that doesn't
> make it any less ridiculous. Of course, it was mentioned elsewhere in
> this thread that context is important. And it is. To use the Starbucks
> analogy, for someone to criticize Starbucks because their tall drinks
> really are actually quite short would be ignoring the significance of the
> context of Starbucks' abuse of the English language. But, again, that
> doesn't make Starbuck's use of the word any less ridiculous. However, at
> least at Starbucks, when I use the "wrong" word, they don't start
> lecturing me. They know what I mean and simply go ahead and translate it
> to Starbucks newspeak.
I, as a tall Americano, have always taken ordering the smallest espresso
beverage possible as something describing the preference of the orderer, as
opposed to the beverage itself.
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