nycticebus commented on the list multilingual-redundancies-that-produce-a-new-meaning
"Chai tea" used to annoy me greatly! Then last time I was in India at a shockingly expensive Starbucks-lookalike I saw a list for "tea/chai" (the latter word in devanagri script) including herbal, Earl Grey's, and, yes...chai.
December 12, 2006
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nycticebus commented on the list multilingual-redundancies-that-produce-a-new-meaning
"Chai tea" used to annoy me greatly! Then last time I was in India at a shockingly expensive Starbucks-lookalike I saw a list for "tea/chai" (the latter word in devanagri script) including herbal, Earl Grey's, and, yes...chai.
December 12, 2006