1. Eat


2. Have


3. Do


같은가 다른가? 같다면 어떻게 같고, 다르다면 어떻게 다른가?



질문


Submitted by eduardo on February 17, 2005

eat vs. have breakfast

I came across a question as I was writing some ELT material. What are the pragmatic implications when choosing between the verbs “to eat” or “to have” (breakfast)?

I might be off base here, but it seems to me that when choosing 1. “to eat breakfast” the real question is whether or not one had breakfast. While 2. “to have breakfast” seems to evoke the act and time of having breakfast itself and everything that goes with it.

For instance:

1. Did you eat breakfast today? 2. I always have breakfast before lunch.

What do you all think?


질문에서 제기한 흥미로운 점은 eat 를 자동사로 썼을 경우에는 식사를 했냐 안 했냐를 의미할 수 있다는 점.

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Unggit Tjitradjaja  (unregistered)

February 21, 2005, 3:25pm

To me, I have always been under the assumption that to eat breakfast is actually "eating something" like toast, bagel, etc. However, to have breakfast doesn't always involve eating, for example drinking a glass of juice. I was hesistant to cite another example using coffee as the subject. That is; can one say: "My breakfast is drinking a cup of coffee only.". As oppose to: "My breakfast is having a cup of coffee only."


고형물이 아닌 액체만으로 된 식사일 경우, eat 쓰면 이상할 수 있겠다는 지적.

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gerry merchant  (unregistered)

March 8, 2005, 2:06pm

Why don't we all just say "do breakfast".


speedwell2

March 8, 2005, 2:21pm

Because the "doing" of a meal is something you must do on a prearranged basis and in company.

When the Hollywood producer tells the star, "Have your girl call my girl and we'll do lunch," he's speaking Los Angeles slang for something a Houston oil executive might render as "Tell your gal to call mine and we'll meet for a steak," or an Atlanta office manager, "Have your secretary schedule us a time for a lunch meeting downtown."



이상의 대화를 관찰하며 동사 eat/ have/ do + breakfast/ lunch 각 조합 간의 비슷한 점과 차이점을 아시겠어요?


식사 앞에 꼭 eat 를 써야 마음이 편한 사람들은 다분히 특정 상황에서 어그러지는 경우가 발생합니다. 


까딱하면 콩그리시 정도가 아니라 논리적 비문이 발생할 수도 있어요.


그래서 eat 는 다소간 kiddie English 의 내음을 풍깁니다(아이들이 밥 잘 안 먹을 때 eat your meal! 하시는 엄마 잔소리가 각인된 잔영임). 


물론 친한 친구하고 둘이서만 얘기할 때엔 모두 애기로 돌아가 eat-eat-eat 로 일관해도 누가 뭐라고 않겠지요. 


그러나 키디영어/게토 영어의 함정을 주의하세요!


그리고 have 와 do 의 차이, 그리고 캘리포니아의 do lunch 와 비교되는 텍사스, 애틀랜타 지역 표현의 차이점도 관찰했나요? 하하하