Comments on: The Sprudel Question http://www.miss-verstaendnis.com/2008/05/23/the-sprudel-question/ Germany 101 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: philipp http://www.miss-verstaendnis.com/2008/05/23/the-sprudel-question/comment-page-1/#comment-256 philipp Sun, 25 May 2008 13:26:00 +0000 http://www.miss-verstaendnis.com/?p=192#comment-256 The English speaking world as a whole (that means US-EN, UK-EN, NZ-EN,...) has a lot of terms for mineral water, too. with gas/without gas, sparkling water, mineral water, soda*,fizzy water,... *Soda: This was actually quite hilarious and it is also one of those stories that only happen on airplanes. I was flying to SFO via LHR - the flight operator obviously being British Airways. When I was on my flight from LHR to SFO I was already in that typical US Vacation mood and ordered a soda. The flight attendant replied "still or carbonated water" and I had to start laughing and so did the flight attendant after I had explained that I actually wanted a Dr Pepper or something like that. Haha. It was funny at the time :) PLUS, I really like the British accent, therefore I just have to fly with BA once again. And I want to see Terminal 5 :) The English speaking world as a whole (that means US-EN, UK-EN, NZ-EN,…) has a lot of terms for mineral water, too. with gas/without gas, sparkling water, mineral water, soda*,fizzy water,…

*Soda: This was actually quite hilarious and it is also one of those stories that only happen on airplanes. I was flying to SFO via LHR – the flight operator obviously being British Airways. When I was on my flight from LHR to SFO I was already in that typical US Vacation mood and ordered a soda. The flight attendant replied “still or carbonated water” and I had to start laughing and so did the flight attendant after I had explained that I actually wanted a Dr Pepper or something like that. Haha. It was funny at the time :)

PLUS, I really like the British accent, therefore I just have to fly with BA once again. And I want to see Terminal 5 :)

]]> By: 42317 http://www.miss-verstaendnis.com/2008/05/23/the-sprudel-question/comment-page-1/#comment-255 42317 Sun, 25 May 2008 11:28:42 +0000 http://www.miss-verstaendnis.com/?p=192#comment-255 "Sprudel" is a colloquial term. It does not boost my confidence in the Lufthansa hearing that they speak like that. The polite and technical term in question would be "Kohlensäure". Actually, at least where I come from, "Sprudel" denotes the whole beverage - water plus carbon dioxide for the sparkling. “Sprudel” is a colloquial term. It does not boost my confidence in the Lufthansa hearing that they speak like that. The polite and technical term in question would be “Kohlensäure”.
Actually, at least where I come from, “Sprudel” denotes the whole beverage – water plus carbon dioxide for the sparkling.

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