On 02-May-24 6:16, lar3ryca wrote:
> On 2024-05-01 00:48, occam wrote:
>> On 29/04/2024 18:15, charles wrote:
>>> In article <v0oeo6$10sv$1@usenet.csail.mit.edu>,
>>>     Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>> In article <v0knfq$svq5$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Peter Moylan  <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I've said "de l'eau plate" [1]. Oh, wait, that wasn't in English.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] It's not unusual, in a French restaurant, to be asked whether you
>>>>> want your water flat [2,3] or gaseous.
>>>
>>>> or sparkling -- which I guess is the same as gasified but focuses on
>>>> the result rather than the process.  (Eau gazéfiée vs. eau pétillante,
>>>> although there may be some official or marketing distinction that I'm
>>>> not aware of.)
>>>
>>>> -GAWollman
>>>
>>> Theer used to be a cafe on a railway staion platform on my route into
>>> London which offered "Bottled water - flat or bumpy"
>>>
>>
>> <smile> Nice. I'm not 100% sure what 'bumpy' is a translation of - if
>> indeed it is the result of a google translation. The usual description
>> would be sparkling or fizzy. ('Gaseous' would be too off-putting to a
>> BrE speaker.)
>
> Maybe just a strange translation of 'bubbly'.
>
As said up there (somewhere). It's just an (out of context) antonym for
"flat".

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