Transcript of “I’ll Have the Koch 88”
Grant, I got a couple of new retronyms to add to my vocabulary.
A retronym, of course, being a term that was modified based on an original term, like, for example, the term acoustic guitar.
Right, because we didn’t need to call it acoustic until we also had electric guitars.
Right. And so I’m going to add to my vocabulary, water sommelier. That’s a new one on me.
Oh, a water sommelier. So somebody who brings the finest waters to your table and lets you choose?
Yes. This is a thing now that there are people who appreciate what is called fine water. That’s another one. That’s unprocessed water that reflects a region’s terroir.
Unprocessed water. So we’re talking about the brain-eating amoeba are still in there.
I’m just taking my chances.
Gosh, I hope not.
But apparently this is a thing. There are now annual competitions.
And at a recent one, the winners included melted snow filtered through volcanic rock in Peru and moisture collected from nets suspended in a foggy pine forest in Tasmania.
What?
If you’re really serious about water, that’s what you want to have.
Oh, boy.
I think I’ll just take my tap water at home, run through a charcoal filter. How about that?
It’s a lot cheaper.
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I was drawn to the Retronym discussion. I remember that when I was a kid, supermarkets sold both Cereal and Cold Cereal. Now, they sell Cereal (née Cold Cereal) and Hot Cereal (née Cereal). That’s a swap in retronyms. What would you call that, an antallnym? (Thanks to AI for finding antallasso and antallagi meaning swap).