I’m firmly on the side of “water is not wet” in this debate, but it’s a question that I was asked while I was high and have no answer to it. Water cannot itself be wet because you can’t get water on water. However, what is a fish in a lake? It can’t be wet until it’s taken out of the water, but it’s not dry either. Is it something else?
Can you describe what saltiness is without using the word salt?
Tastes like sweat.
“Hmmm… I tasted the food, I think it would be better if it tasted a little more like human sweat.”
Either way, that’s not really a description so much as comparative example, that’s like describing umami as soy sauce.