Comments by "alukuhito" (@alukuhito) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. Some traditional Japanese colour names (not often used now): 鴇色 (tokiro) - pink - literally, Japanese crested ibis colour 海老茶 (ebicha) - dark red - literally, shrimp/prawn colour 狐色 (kitsuneiro) - goldish - fox colour 山吹色 (yamabukiiro) - yellow - Japanese globeflower colour 鶯色 (uguisuiro) - olive green - nightingale colour 浅葱色 (asagiiro) - torquoise - chive colour 常盤緑 (tokiwamidori) - dark green - connarite green 茄子紺 (nasukon) - deep purple - eggplant dark blue 藤色 (fujiiro) - light purple - wisteria colour
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  2. I used to sometimes visit elementary schools in Japan and do little presentations, introducing myself. At that time, English wasn't part of the curriculum at elementary school. I would show them slides and things, and at some point I'd inevitably say something like, "Next I'd like to show you..." Whenever I said "show you", all the kids would repeat "shoyu", which means "soy sauce" in Japanese.
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  3.  @jodypalm303  Good luck with the Japanese, but just a warning that these colour names are not helpful because most Japanese don't even know them. These are traditional names, rarely used today.
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  4. Also, in English we talk about "anime", which is a Japanese word, アニメ, which of course came from "animation", and "animation" came to English from Latin.
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  5.  @thekingsdaughter4233  Yes, evolved/devolved into less poetic names. Here are the basic colours: red - aka - 赤 orange - orenji - オレンジ yellow - kiiro - 黄色 green - midori - 緑 blue - ao/buluu - 青・ブルー dark blue - kon - 紺 purple - paapuru - パープル black - kuro - 黒 white - shiro - 白 grey - guree - グレー brown - chairo - 茶色 Sometimes you can be more specific with your colours, but these are the basics. The ones I listed before are rarely used and sometimes unknown, especially to younger people in Japan.
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  6.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  Yes, "onara" means fart, and you don't add "o" in front of city names.
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  7. I'm from British Columbia. The border in that area was disputed between British and Americans. The Columbia is the big river in that area, which itself was named after a ship, which was named after Columbus. BC should really include Washington State so that it goes down to the Columbia River. Anyway, the British part of that area just became British Columbia. The Americans called their side Washington. The border is also very strange once it hits the Pacific Ocean, with a tiny peninsula sticking out of BC as US territory - Point Roberts. Then the border does a weird zigzag through the islands.
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  8. You guys aren't very original. So colonial. Should've kept indigenous names.
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  9. Sometimes I voice them for fun. Also, sometimes Japanese will actually voice those vowels. It kind of emphasizes the words. On the other hand, most people won't even notice whether you voice them or not.
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  10. You never looked it up?
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  11. Right?
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  12. I say "doumo arigatou" sometimes in Japan. I usually start with "doumo", then a slight pause, and "arigatou". Also, for "no", instead of "iie", often "chigaimasu" is the best response.
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  13. It's a contraction of two words, "you all", so it's not one word. People from the American South have no say in how English works.
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  14. It's a contraction, and most English speakers don't use it unless they're making fun of people from the American South.
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  15. Japanese kanji is also pretty interesting, with some Chinese characters still used today that China has since revised, and vice-versa with lots of Chinese characters that Japanese revised. Then there are the hiragana and katakana syllabaries based on kanji.
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  16. He's on the verge of bad timing / Dad jokes, but forgivable.
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  17.  @Dancestar1981  No. It's because the start of the year shifted. Watch the video.
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  18. Japanese doesn't distinguish green and blue so much. There is the word "ao", which could be either, although now people say "buluu" for blue, and "midori" or "guriin" for green to be more specific. Other interesting colour names in Japanese: momoiro (pink) = peach colour, chairo (brown) = tea colour, nezumiiro (grey) = mouse colour. Also, Japanese kids tend to colour the Sun red and the Moon yellow. People refer to orange cats as brown cats.
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  19.  @teejay6063  Why would the state be named "Native American Word"? Anyway, sounds good. It's just too bad about all the colonial names.
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  20. 7:15 "Give up" always made sense to me because it's basically surrendering or sacrificing, like you would sacrifice an animal or other valuable thing to God, with the idea that God is up above. You put something on an alter and God above receives it.
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  21. No, it isn't. It's a contraction of "you all", so it's two words.
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  22.  @varsoo1  Right? The indigenous names are so much more interesting than the old boring repetitive colonial names from England and other places in Europe.
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  23.  @beeble2003  I just think it would be nice to use indigenous names, not just boring old names of places from the old country. Besides, many groups of Europeans had alliances with certain native tribes. For example, the French were allied with the Huron and Alonquin, whereas the British were allied with the Iroquois and Cherokee. Spanish were allied with the Pueblo and Apalachee. The Dutch were allied with the Mohicans. I think you need to work on your own understanding.
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  24.  @GL-iv4rw  What did it look like? Any links?
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  25.  @GL-iv4rw  K, tanks.
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  26.  @beeble2003  Why not? What's the point of giving names from your old country when you can use a local language for a name?
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  27. Months are easy in Japanese: Month 1, Month 2, Month 3, etc. １月、２月、３月。。。
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  28.  @beeble2003  No, I'm not. My point was about the types of names chosen, not renaming any place.
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  29. That was cool, but now I'm wondering why Lundy Island was coloured yellow. Is it different from the other islands around Great Britain?
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  30.  @lesleystuart1813  Where are those languages spoken?
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  31.  @lesleystuart1813  Oh, OK. Thanks.
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  32. Not using runes anymore is stupid.
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  33. I remember meeting a woman from Portugal and one day we got talking about place names. I asked her if the "Port" in "Portugal" refers to ports. It seemed to make sense to me as the country basically follows the coast of that part of Europe. She had no idea and thought it didn't. Turns out I was right. Yay.
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  34.  @keithle_  Yes, normally. I was giving exceptions to the norm.
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