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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hello, guys.
You cut your hair?
I don't think... I can't take showers during hospitalization.
So, I was like, I'll cut it short.
Yeah.
Make things easier.
Cleaner.
Yeah.
I even thought about, like, maybe going, like, near bald.
Because that makes it easier.
But, like, I thought that was going to, like, give a little bit of a confusion of, like, cancer and baldness.
And be like, oh, is Kevin okay?
So, like, I just thought I'd do it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can imagine why.
So...
This one?
Yup.
USBの説明と関連語
Okay, this is from Momosuke-san.
Okay.
毎日欠かさず楽しみにポッドキャスト聞かせてもらっています。
Thank you.
本当にありがとうございます。
先日ふとUSBって何だろうと思い調べると、
Universal Serial Busだということがわかったんですが、
UniversalはともかくSerialとBusが全くわかりません。
さらに調べるとSerialは連続的なという意味。
バスは母船、母の船、母船、共通の電走路という意味だということがわかりました。
英語を母国語とする方たちはバスと聞いて、
乗り物のバス以外に母船、共通の電走路という意味をすぐに連想するのでしょうか。
あと、Serialの方ではつづりはS-E-R-I-A-L。
穀物のシリアルとはC-E-R-E-A-Lとは違うんだということを知りました。
この穀物のシリアルと連続するのシリアル2つの発音は違いますか。
違うならどこがどう違うのかも教えてください。
英語難しいでも楽しくて好きです。
これからもちょっとずつでも英語の知識を増やせていけたらいいなと思っています。
毎日配信されるKERポッドキャスト本当にすごいと思います。
シリアルと穀物の違い
体に気をつけて無理せず続けてください。ずっと応援しています。
バスは日本語でバスと言います。
バスはバスと言います。
そうだね。
B-A-S-S
B-U-S
本当に?
多くの線を一つ一つにするようなもの。
そして混ぜ合わせる。
同じようなものだったみたい。
そうだね。
バスと言います。
わかりました。
普通に言うかどうかわからないけど、
時々聞こえる。
バスと言うだけだけど。
でもまだ技術的だね。
そうだね。
あとシリアル?
朝食のシリアルよりシリアルの数字のシリアルが
Pronounce the same, same pronunciation, but both meanings are very common, so like people
can understand in context of like if they're talking about the breakfast or like the cereal
number cereal.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that's very common.
So, if they say like USB, universal cereal bus, then they'll know that the word cereal
is probably not the breakfast cereal.
Yeah.
They'll know.
Right.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
True.
So, like, the number, that's kind of common in Japanese.
Right.
That's true.
We say cereal number.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's like from, I don't know, 0001 to 5, like it's...
Yeah.
Right.
Cereal.
It comes from, I think it comes from the series, right?
Like season one, season two.
Yeah.
Those are all series, right?
So, like, cereal.
Right.
And cereal, serial killer.
We say that in America, like serial killer.
Yeah.
Suspense, crime scene, like serial killer.
Yeah.
It kills a lot of people in a row, that's cereal too.
So, yeah.
Right.
Cereal.
Yeah.
Cereal.
Cereal.
What else in Japanese do we say in that meaning?
Cereal.
Cereal.
But only cereal code, right?
Yeah.
Can you imagine?
Cereal number.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
UNIQLOの発音に関する考察
Completely random question, but if you were to say Uniqlo in English, do you think it's
Uniqlo or Uniqlo?
Uniqlo.
No?
I thought it's Uniqlo.
So, the reason why is it's the word unique, right?
Yeah.
So, if you think they're implying the word unique in there, if it's that, then it's uniqlo,
right?
Yeah, uniqlo.
But it's written like U-N-I, so it's not like unique, uniqlo, right?
How it's written?
U-N-I.
Okay.
Uniqlo.
I like this.
Okay.
U-N-I-Q-L-O.
Yeah.
How do you pronounce this, like without thinking anything?
You just see those words.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
I would say uniqlo.
Yeah.
So, right, from the spelling, I guess it doesn't imply that it's unique.
Uniqlo.
Rather, like the uni, as in like unified uni, like the one, one uni.
So, if that's that, then it's definitely uniqlo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah, but if you know that the meaning behind everything, people can say like uniqlo.
Right.
Maybe.
Unique clothes.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Oh.
Yeah.
What is the origin of the word uniqlo?
Like how did the, what's the meaning behind it, right?
You know?
Uniqlo?
Isn't it like unique closet?
No?
Oh, unique closet?
Yeah.
That's what I...
I don't know that.
But I'm not sure.
That's what I...
I've been thinking.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's from unique clothing warehouse.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Unique clothing warehouse, uniqlo.
So it's...
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh.
I still don't know.
But I heard some people saying like uniqlo.
Oh, uniqlo?
Uniqlo.
Yeah.
That makes sense too.
Yeah.
UNIQLOのイントネーションについて
That makes sense too though.
If you only read the words then...
It is, you're right.
Uniqlo.
Uniqlo.
Yeah.
Nice.
But it's not totally wrong if you say uniqlo.
Yeah.
Because I heard a lot of people say uniqlo.
Oh, uniqlo?
Oh, yeah.
Right.
All right.
So, I don't know about that.
But...
Okay.
Thanks for sitting guys.
Thank you.
Bye.
