"Non bevo mai tè con limone."
Translation:I never drink tea with lemon.
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It isn't the same thing because lemon tea is not necessarily the same thing as tea with lemon. One could be a herbal infusion, and the other the more standard 'tea' tea, with lemon slice or juice in it (an alternative to milk)
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it all depends on which tea you drink what if anything to add... e.g. green teas are best without milk or lemon.
btw if you want to upset an englishman add milk AND lemon to your tea. I think it the equivalent of putting pineapple on your pizza in Italy ;-)
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It certainly used to be that if you ordered a lemon tea you were served a tea with lemon.
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I would not trust most British tea shops to observe the subtle linguistic difference. And I suspect "tè al limon" is the only (language) option in Italian. So IMO Lemon Tea should be accepted.
I agree the English never say "tea with lemon" it is always "lemon tea" just as the French have "thé au citron". I think that Duo has got it wrong again!
Yes! Forget what your teacher told you about double negatives in English. Double (or more!) negatives are totally trending in Italian ;) It is possible to say mai bevo tè con limone but it isn't so common.
Thanks! :D
And Isn't there any cases in Italian where 2 negative = a positive? I'm curious!
Here's a good site to help explain the double and even triple negatives in Italian:
http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare141a.htm
"Are the cases in English where two positives make a negative?" Yeah, right...
There's a great example of this Italian mindset in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv3fkcCrn6k). He says "I don't have nothing behind my back." The double negative in the English sentence is exactly how Italian (and Spanish from what I've seen) is spoken.
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col = con + il, però " tè col limone " non è accettato qui. Il plurale è coi = con + i Ci sono anche delle forme più vecchie :
còllo = con +lo ;
cogli = con + gli ;
còlla = con + la ;
còlle = con +le
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/con_(La-grammatica-italiana)/
how come come mai was an idiom and you don't use never in the translation but bevo mai translates as never?
Idioms rarely translate one to one. Come mai? = How come? (Why?)
In this case non bevo mai could be I never drink or I do not ever drink.
Lemon tea is definitely correct in English and should be accepted.One would NEVER say a tea with lemon.
I totally agree it should be LEMON TEA. At times like this, I hate Duolingo, perhaps "tea with lemon" is an Americanism.
As an American, I can guarantee that almost none of us would say "tea with lemon." Lemon tea makes more sense. Duolingo probably did this intentionally to screw with us.
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- how do you drink your tea? with sugar and milk or with lemon?
- with sugar and milk. I never drink my tea with lemon.
seems like a natural converstaion to me, right?
"I never drink lemon tea" would be more typical in UK and Ireland, than "tea with lemon"
