Steeping tea in milk

You mean you're sure that tea tasters, say, from two different Calcutta brokers independently slurping the same DJ would describe it in ways that don't overlap much? Or do you mean that, even if they reliably agree, their vocabulary covers nothing that would be interesting to refined palates like, uh, ours? Or what?

Do you have a pointer to this?

I'd rather not. Why get into details of music and music criticism? There are multiple approaches there, too, as you no doubt know.

I didn't mean to say that I talk a lot here but find nothing worth listening to; far from it. But the closer the conversation comes to the actual experience of having tea in your mouth, the more opaque all the words seem. (This is a first approximation, of course. Some of us write evocatively about tastes and aromas, at least sometimes.)

Well, of course, but who's denying you the use of both? (Leaving aside the question of whether standardization must be rigid.)

/Lew

Lewis snipped-for-privacy@panix1.panix.com4/13/06 14: snipped-for-privacy@panix.com

I'll ask, but I guess we both know the answer. Unless Jenny's magnanimity and trusting nature reach beyond reason, in which case I'll answer for her. Michael

Lewis snipped-for-privacy@panix1.panix.com4/13/06 16: snipped-for-privacy@panix.com

Well, actually that system could conceivably tell us much about the physical nature of the leaf that goes into the tea, but nothing about the aroma or taste of that tea, right? We learn whether the leaf is small or large, broken or unbroken, includes buds or doesn't, and the like. My gentle comment above spoke more to the fact that one man's FTGFOP is another man's something else. It's not standardized, but the words suggest that it is. Or perhaps I'm all wet. I sense a touch of sarcasm in your question. (I should say that from what I understand, and I could be wrong, please correct me if that's the case, this nomenclature does not involve tasting, it involves looking.)

Michael

Oh, I see what you mean. I wasn't referring to those abbreviations regarding *dry leaf* appearance, but to the tea tasters' adjectives for *liquor*. So was Karsten, unless I miss my guess.

/Lew

Lewis snipped-for-privacy@panix1.panix.com4/14/06 11: snipped-for-privacy@panix.com

Oh, did I shift meaning? Sorry.