2006-09-27 21:30:53 · 61 answers · asked by Carol B 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
In the situation you describe, your cup is half empty.
I believe "half empty or half full" is determined by the situation of the happening. I mean, if you are adding liquid or something to the cup and it's filled up 1/2 way, then it's half full as it's in the process of being increased. But if you are taking the liquid out of the cup and it's in the process of being depleted, then it's half empty.
2006-09-27 21:41:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was the cup full to start with ? If only half full and you drank half that would be a 1/4 full or 3/4's empty?
2006-09-28 06:39:23 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tea in itself can be neither, nor half full, or half empty, therefore theoretically the cup, or holder can be filled to a certain level, and to be hundred % sure that you are on the 50% level, one would have to use a proper measuring apparatus to determine that fact, and once that little exercise is achieved, one could in reality say that its both, half full, or half empty. Pretty much like a human brain, half full, or half empty of any usable con-tense
2006-09-27 21:51:42 · answer #3 · answered by african lion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More importantly is it delicious?
I am a big fan of tea.
Philosophically I would say if it was once full now it is half empty, if you had an empty cup and were adding tea it would become half full.
2006-09-27 21:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's the matter with you people - its half a cup of tea. Not half full and not half empty....
2006-09-27 21:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
strictly speaking you could say either but personally i would say half full. If someone asked how much tea you had left you wouldn't say half an empty cup but you would say it's half full !!
2006-09-27 21:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by sophie-star 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It;s half empty....The two phrases are actually different and it depends on how you're using it...
When you're filling the cup of tea....you use the words, "half full"...but if you're 'emptying' the cup of tea, you use the words "half empty"
e.g. When you ask a waiter to fill up your glass with you wine, you DONT say, "just half empty my glass with wine" but rather, "just half fill my glass with wine"
2006-09-27 21:35:33 · answer #7 · answered by yekis 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Its half full. Your tea was full when you began drinking it. Therefore "full" is the what it began as. You have drank half of it, therefore it is half full.
If you said I filled my cup with tea and drank half, then the cup would be half empty as "empty" was what the cup was originally.
2006-09-27 21:46:47 · answer #8 · answered by Paul S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when u have drunk the tea it is half empty
when u are pouring the tea it is half full
2006-09-27 21:41:46 · answer #9 · answered by romeo123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to the fact that you know that it was fuller when you started, and you know that half has already been drunk, the cup is half empty.
If you just found the cup, you would not know if it was busy getting ful, or empty ... and then, that would be a difficult one to answer!
2006-09-27 21:35:21 · answer #10 · answered by masteroflisa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋