>Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which originated in the borderlands of south-western China, north-east India and northern Myanmar. Tea is also made, but rarely, from the leaves of Camellia taliensis.If it's not Camellia sinensis I ain't calling it tea. AND IF IT DIDN'T COME OUT A FUCKIN TITTY IT'S NOT MILK>Almond milkDODGE ME WITH THAT BULLSHIT. IT'S NOT EVEN A NUT. YOU CAN'T EVEN CALL IT NUT MILK
I too am autistically pedantic but I refuse to say tisane
Language is a tool of consensus and pretending otherwise is just being a retarded contrarian, usually because some random slang word hurt your sensibilities or you got BTFO in an argument with a friend. If you're using a private form of language that nobody else does then you're objectively making no sense to anyone else around you when you put it to use.It's entirely a you problem that you can't grasp what is and is not tea. There's nothing wrong with that if you own up to it being your fault alone that you cannot effectively communicate with people round you.
>>21999249>Grounded reasonable answerGet out of this site, and especially this board. But also you must remember that>WELL AKSHALLYis the autist status signaler. The more petty, the more pointlessly precise the more they win. Win what? Couldn't say, but it's a flavor of snark I stopped tolerating ages ago
>>21999285I won't pretend I wasn't being a bit of a snarky asshole myself to get people to reply to me so I'm not blameless here. But people acting like language just stops evolving the second they themselves learn it is one of the dumbest things I see online.
>>21999249Green tea is tea. Oolong is tea. Black tea is tea. Asking me if I want "tea" and giving me chamomile is a kick in the nuts.
>>21999294The vast majority of words have more than one singular definition and language evolves over time based on their collective usage. Nobody was using "nuts" as slang for testicles when your personal standard for tea was codified in the distant past, so you shouldn't be using that, but you do anyway because you decided that "this very particular and outdated definition for tea" is your hill to die on... for some reason. What is that reason, exactly?
>>21998881>If it's not Camellia sinensis I ain't calling it teaWhat do you call this?https://yunnansourcing.com/products/2019-jinggu-yang-ta-camellia-taliensis-white-tea-cake
>>21999309>this very particular and outdated definition for teaOutdated? No, it's the actual definition. If you're steeping flowers with no caffeine in them call them something else.>>21999311Still tea.
>>21999313>call them something elseWhy? If you can expand the use of "nuts" for testicles, why can't they expand the use of "tea" for other steeped plant beverages? It sounds like you're a hypocrite with no real good reason for your particular definition of tea outside of taking a stand to take a stand.
>>21999313>"if it's not Camellia sinensis I ain't calling it tea">sees product not made from Camellia sinensis>yeah that's still teaAt least be consistent
>>21999291ong vro ts makin my ahh crash out fr i be chillin vibin w/e they clowns be contrarians be like words is what they is
>>21999405They way you speak normally now would make you seem just as fucking retarded to those people of the not so distant past that you think fondly of in your Miniver Cheevy false nostalgia.
>>21999409>they way you speakGood morning saar
>>21999317Because slang for genitals ISN'T food?>>21999322>>21998881>Tea is also made, but rarely, from the leaves of Camellia taliensis.
