食物语言学

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• 菜单上的语言学填空词与低价有关。正面含糊词（delicious, tasty, terrific）每出现一次，平均价格就下降9美分。诱人形容词（rich, chunky, zesty）则意味着下降2美分。 (查看原文)

  一样的耳朵 6赞 2017-08-23 10:08:04

• By a hundred years later, in the eighteenth century, the word dessert was borrowed into both British and American English. In British English the word retained its meaning of a light after-course. Given the American attitude toward food (something on the order of “Why eat an apple when you can eat an entire plate of cake and ice cream with whipped cream and chocolate syrup instead?”), you will not be shocked to know that by the time of our revolution, the word had shifted here to include more substantial sweet fare like cakes, pies, and ice cream. We know this because George and Martha Washington threw a party after Washington’s New York City inauguration of 1789, at their Manhattan mansion on Cherry Street, and Pennsylvania Senator William Maclay put down the menu in his diary: “The desse... (查看原文)

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