To Toast

[macalicious731]

A friend and I were having a conversation, and we came up with a little grammar issue. Since I know we have some people here who just love disecting this sort of thing, I post for you a question.

Would it be:

"He toasted over champagne."

Or could it also be:

"He toasted champagne."

The second version implies to me that the drink itself is being toasted, not an occasion.

Okay, thanks!

[detante]

Hmm, I thought it would be:

"He toasted with champagne."

-Jen

[sc211]

"He raised his champagne to make a toast."

"The toast was classic - funny and moving and made with champagne."

"We all had champagne and toast."

[mr mistook]

"He drank the champagne and got really toasted." :lol




Seriously though, holding up the glass of champagne, you are *proposing* a toast. The toast is the act of swallowing the champagne in honor of some person or ideal. So you definitely cannot toast *over* champagne. You would *propose* a toast over champagne - or with champagne.

Technically, you can toast champagne - in other words you can swallow champagne - but for it to be a toast, it must be in honor of something previously proposed for toasting.

[katdad]

And the toast itself? My favorite:

"Some love is fire, some love is rust, but the finest, cleanest love is lust."

[maestrowork]

You make a toast with Champagne.

Of course, bread would be yummier.

Seriously, if you must use it as a verb, I'd say "he toasted over/with champagne."

"Toasted champagne" means he makes a toast about the champagne.

[sc211]

Two short, witty bits on why they call it a "toast"...

www.german-toasting-glass...sting.html (http://www.german-toasting-glasses.com/information_library/history_of_toasting.html)

www.janeausten.co.uk/maga...254&step=4 (http://www.janeausten.co.uk/magazine/features.html?pid=254&step=4)

[Risseybug]

I think he should toast with toast.

[Kallahan]

I would think putting champaign in a toaster would be dangerous. :)

[macalicious731]

I would think putting champaign in a toaster would be dangerous.

Kallahan, that's what I thought when my friend came up with that sentence structure.

Ok, I knew people here would have an answer - thanks!