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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9682951" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Assuming for the sake of argument that the stuff in the glass is Pepsi or some other Coke-like product not produced by Coca-Cola as part of its 'Coke' line of products, then it is (for me, hopefully obviously):<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Not a Coke (a specific branded product).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is a Cola (a flavor/style of carbonated sweetened drink).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is a soda pop (what my gut tells me is the quasi-technical term for carbonated, flavored, and sweetened water-based drinks).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is pop (the regional colloquial term for soda pops in my area).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is also carbonated beverage (a term which also includes unsweetened fizzy water drinks like soda water, tonic water, mineral waters, etc.).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Could be a fountain drink (something dispensed from a soda fountain or from a soda gun) if it didn't come in a bottle or can.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is also a soft drink (a non-alcoholic beverage).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is also a beverage (a drink other than water).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A drink (something intended/served in typical fashion for one to drink as an atomic unit of consumption).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something one drinks (as above, but also mixers, dairy intended to go in coffee/tea, or otherwise components of a complete 'drink.')</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Potable liquid (something that can safely be drunk)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Liquid (something that can physically be drunk).</li> </ul>There are all sorts of special framing and exceptions to the above system. For instance, coffee and tea might be distinct from soft drinks if alcohol isn't even in the running (the work cafeteria might serve 'coffee, tea, or soft drinks'). Likewise, 'NA' drinks like near-beer and dealcoholized wine register to me as special-case entities on the alcoholic drinks menu, and don't fit in the 'soft drink' framing. Similarly, if someone asks what you beverage preference is, you might say 'water' even through by the above framing that's not technically a beverage (although that might just be shorthanding 'no beverage, I'll just have water').</blockquote>

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