Talk:Vodka

BBC

The BBC article about "Extrasept" appears, on first glance, to be grossly misinformed. The points it raises are blatantly unscientific (viz.: dirty factory, dead liver cells) and it misspelled the name of the compound (polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride) which, if used properly, can make your drinking water safer.

99.242.38.138 (talk) 05:36, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Poor Distillation.

This should be changed. "Illegally homemade ......is sometimes sold in Russia and Ukraine, with an abv as high as 62%, which is partly due to its poor distillation." How can high strength spirit be consider poor distillation? All spirits are distilled to high proof and diluted for bottling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.76.255 (talk) 13:21, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Etymology

As alcohol had long been used as a basis for medicines, this implies that the term vodka could be a noun derived from the verb vodit’, razvodit’ (водить, разводить), "to dilute with water".

This seems a very doubtful information: in Russian the old long 'o' and short 'o' have merged, yielding 'o'. But in Polish the old short 'o' is now 'o', while the old long 'o' is now 'u' (written 'ó'). Wódka contains the root 'vod-' with the old long vowel, but wodzić/rozwodzić (to distribute) has the root with old short 'o', whereas rozwadniać (dilute with water), has a completely different vowel -a- in the root. Therefore I would guess that the word "vodka" is unrelated to 'razvodit' and the similarity of the roots is superficial and confined to the Russian language because of the local phonetic developments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.87.13.74 (talk) 00:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Translate please anyone...

Я не могу объясняться английским языком, простите; но зачем, будучи невеждами, вы пустились в такие глупости?

О каких таких фонетических изменениях вы говорите?

О каком таком слитии «короткого» и «длинного» «о» идет речь?

Заметьте, пожалуйста, что польское «ó» [u] есть перемена из «о».

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Слова «водка» и «разводить» от разных корней!

И в русском языке это очевиднейшая вещь!

И еще: первый и второй корни различны, но содержат один и тот же гласный.

Я не представляю, как можно путать «водку», «воднить», «наводнить» со словами «водить», «разводить» и так далее. 109.252.89.140 (talk) 03:38, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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Distillation of vodka vs. other spirits

The article states that the difference between vodka and other distilled spirits is that vodka is distilled to a higher alcohol content and then diluted, while whiskey (for example) is only distilled to drinking strength. I do not believe this is accurate. My understanding is that whiskey is also distilled to a much higher alcohol content and then diluted for bottling as well. I think this reference should be deleted. Agtrade (talk) 19:41, 18 November 2011 (UTC)