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I don't know why I do this.
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It is a five-minute spin-off version of this show.
And on that show, we answer English questions we get from our listeners.
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Might as well...
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Very complicated questions.
Something that you can't find in a dictionary.
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Okay, this one.
This is from Daikon Salada-san.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
英語の数の概念
Okay, so the best thing to do right now at this point
is to stop thinking about that immediately
and just give up on trying to figure out
why things are uncountable and things are countable.
Because it does not make sense.
There's no consistency in how things are uncountable.
There's no rule.
There's no logic behind it.
There's no logic behind it.
It's just, it is.
Yeah, I think at first there was logic behind it,
but now when you look at all the uncountable ones,
it doesn't make sense.
So this is for your best.
Stop thinking about it.
Stop trying to figure it out.
Just accept how it is.
It's for your best.
Don't waste your time and life on it.
It's for your rest.
It's just how it is.
It's just how it is.
Right.
ヌードルの例
Noodles.
You say noodles?
Yeah, we say noodles.
Countable.
Countable.
When you say noodles, what does that mean?
You're talking about one bowl?
I'm talking about, we're talking about the whole noodles in the bowl.
In the bowl, okay.
The multiple noodles that are in the bowl.
When you're talking about a noodle, it's just one string of the noodle.
I see.
That's it.
I see, I see.
Yeah.
You don't say rices?
We don't say rices.
We don't say rices.
Yeah, we don't say that.
Okay.
Weird though, right?
It's very weird.
So you say a bowl of rice.
A bowl of rice.
Yes, we say a bowl of rice.
That's right.
You say a bowl of noodles.
Yeah, we can say a bowl of noodles.
Yeah.
Yes, yes, yes.
But you don't say bowl of noodle.
No.
We say bowl of noodles.
Right.
Right.
That's how it is.
That's how it is.
I know.
That didn't make sense.
Yeah.
That did not make sense.
But that's just how it is.
That's how it is.
That's how it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
言語の不一致と多様性
Well, one thing that I feel like I think the biggest key in many biggest keys, but one
of the biggest keys is like just don't think about that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like just let everything go and just don't care about that.
Just let it go.
Just forget everything.
Yeah.
That's right.
It's like to me like one of the biggest keys.
Like, you know.
Yeah.
You have to put S when you speak he runs and you run.
Yeah.
It makes no sense if you think about that.
It's just how it is.
Right.
Absolutely.
Just forget about that.
Absolutely.
So.
I think that it's in all language.
Yes.
There's a lot of inconsistencies.
Right.
Yes, yes, yes.
It's weirdness in Japan as well.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
In French too.
Like feminine.
Why is this masculine?
Yeah.
That is so confusing.
Yeah.
It makes no sense.
Masculine verbs and feminine verbs.
Yeah.
Is there.
Do you think there's going to in the future.
It's going to be like a non-binary.
That item is identifying themselves as a male.
Yeah.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
日本語の複雑さ
But in Japanese too.
Like.
In Japanese, yeah.
Wa.
Wa.
Ha.
Ga.
That.
Wa.
Wa.
This is difficult.
So I still don't understand.
Yeah.
I get confused.
Like when we think about titles.
Right.
For example.
Like.
Like.
I didn't know about Japan.
Yeah.
Like American.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like American.
Yeah.
So we title the TikToks.
Right.
Yeah.
I always get confused.
Should this be a wa?
Or should this be a wo?
Ni?
Yeah.
It's confusing.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know.
Language is something we like naturally made and build up.
So it makes no sense if you see like that from outside and just analyze things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I don't.
Sorry.
But it does make sense.
It has meaning to like organize things and to put in a grammar things and so that people
can learn easily maybe.
Yeah.
But, you know, what's more important to me is like just get inside.
It's just.
Start adapting.
Just live inside.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you think about the idea of creating a very logical universal language?
エスペラントの試み
Yeah.
What do you think about that?
There were one trial.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let me guess.
It was in America.
The Americans tried to do it?
No, no, no.
It was because you've got English already.
Oh, because the Americans always think that everyone in the world speaks English.
Right.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
It would never be the Americans.
Right.
And it failed.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right now, like today, nobody speaks that.
When was this?
Was it fairly recent or?
Okay.
Okay.
Within like 50 years or?
I don't think that's like 50 or something.
Yeah.
It's called Esperanto.
So, this is one of the.
So, there are many trials of making a new.
Language.
Organized language.
Very consistent logical language.
Everybody in the world.
Yes.
And Esperanto is the biggest one.
Okay.
The most successful one.
Most successful one.
Okay.
But still.
It failed.
It failed.
Oh.
It's almost 130 years ago.
Oh, okay.
Esperanto was invented and made.
Fairly recent.
Yeah.
He says on, this is on Wikipedia.
Esperanto was invented in 1887.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's weird.
Yeah.
Well, it's not weird.
Like a mother tongue.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Somebody who learns or like, you know, acquired.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
they shouldn't learn.
Basically it's everybody is in Japan, basically.
エスペラントの人気とランキング
So it's almost the same as the Japanese population.
Oh, I see.
So the thing about that was Esperanto-go no hyakumanrin toka wa, it's quite low.
Well, well, well, well.
Sekai Esperanto Kyokai no kan'i suu ranking nihon ichi datte.
Ehh?
Nihon ga ichiban kanshinan no kana?
Next is Chugoku.
Ehh?
Then France.
Ehh?
It's interesting.
Yeah.
Ehh?
Esperanto Kyokai tte anda ne.
It's interesting.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Yeah.
So there are trials, but it didn't, you know.
Didn't work out, huh?
Yeah.
Didn't work out.
Okay.
Alright.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
