Comments by "Quint Rankid" (@quintrankid8045) on "Life Where I'm From" channel.

  1. Delicious with meat.
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  2.  @MrFujinko  "in recent time is mostly related to the horrors of ww2" How? Why?
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  3. What is the transportation system near me like? The nearest passenger rail system station often has disreputable looking people sleeping in the elevator in the early morning hours. Sometimes there are people trying to sell counterfeit tickets. Trains are often delayed or canceled. A large maintenance program that played havoc with schedules for two years had to be repeated because the material purchased was flawed and had to be purchased a second time and the work redone. I could go on. And on. But just one more thing. Manners here are different and people are less concerned with how what they do affects other people. There are pluses and minuses to this, but one result of this is that people don't self-censor when they talk about matters that might otherwise be considered to be private or even self-incriminating. It can really be very amusing even if sometimes squicky.
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  4. Thanks. Nice views. However, it is almost always a bad idea to ride in the space between cars, which can in some places lead to being crushed.
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  5. I need a cup of hot chocolate now.
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  6. That was great. It's nice to know there is a place in the world where you can leave your stuff and find it where you left it. Where I'm from you save a spot by... oh wait, no, you can't. You move, you lose. Actual conversations go like: Hey, I was saving that spot. Oh, you were saving this spot? Well, too bad, it's mine now. But I left my stuff to save it. What stuff? Well ok, that last bit of the exchange wouldn't happen because everyone knows you don't leave stuff unattended. Yes, I once met a woman who told me she left something on a curb for just a moment when she was moving some of her stuff to a cab. When she turned back it was gone never to be seen again. Beer in a car staked out by the police? Here the police would probably take the beer. Perhaps I am overstating? Well, ok, maybe they wouldn't take the beer. But the police do leave cars unattended to see how long it takes for them to be stolen. I remember seeing a documentary where someone who stole a car like that asked around for help. They call them bait cars and someone made a show by that name. Of course not everyplace in the US is like that, but it sure isn't like Japan.
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  7. I wonder if there's a circuit in there that could handle a mini-fridge.
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  8. That looked a lot nicer than the homes I've seen in the US. Maybe most importantly, the staff seems really upbeat.
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  9. Thank you
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  10. Wow. Wonderful video. I have a vague memory of reading something that suggested that cultures that grow rice tend to cluster more, but maybe this also is a result of some past wars? I also wondered about the parking lot for the water plant. Seemed like space for a lot of cars. How many people who work there live in town? Also quite interesting to see how the town government and the people all seem to be on the same page, where I'm from that's not the case.
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  11. There are a lot of videos on this topic.
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  12. That was great, thanks. Do the building codes in Okinawa take into account earthquakes? I wonder about all that rigid looking concrete.
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  13. Fascinating. I hope you'll visit them again so we can see what progress they've made.
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  14. My random thoughts on some a couple of the subjects you covered. I think there is formal English, but it lacks a formal definition. For example, the way you might speak to your boss or the principal of your school. Maybe also how you would speak to a stranger or try to get their attention. For example, in suburban areas if you pass someone you don't know on a sidewalk it's common to say "Good Afternoon", well depending on the time of day. If you know the person you might have a less formal greeting and perhaps a conversation. Speaking of this, there are differences between the US and UK. My understanding is that in the UK people still don't regularly use first names. In the US addressing someone by their last name is something doctors do with patients and judges or attorneys do. In the US if you called your boss for example, Ms. Smith, instead of Jean, you might be considered impolite. And if Jean told people that she would prefer to be called Ms. Smith instead of Jean, she'd probably get a bad reputation. Maybe t'other way round in other English speaking countries. As for people coming over to Japan and trying to speak English to people, hmmm. I sometimes wonder if part of that is the history of English, which is AFAIK, not very much like the language that the people of Ing or Yngvi spoke. Modern English is a mix of that language, some Scandinavian influence, some Langue d'Oc because of the conquest, and then some Latin and Greek somewhat due to the industrial revolution (leading to an endless number of postings about the plural of octopus) and in what only can be termed a massive Indo-European language irony, a dash of Hindi. It's like a language masala. Heh. Also, we want your words and when we take them we will claim them as our own and suggest that your usage of your own words is a skosh incorrect in the way that skosh, when properly pronounced has, um, no final i. All of this history speaks to a group of people who weren't too worried about formal grammar (pace our propensity for irregular verbs) so long as they could make themselves understood to buy and sell. A market place language. I think we English speakers have kept this cultural attitude and we feel that everybody wants to make a deal and will, therefore, speak English. And if they don't we'll say it louder and louder until they stop trying to stubbornly pretend that they don't understand. I hope that was clear. I SAID I HOPE... ok, well anyway.... One more thing, I think some of the history of the past 200 years or so has led English to have some predominance in the world. Not bad for a language that no one spoke while the Romans were busy guarding the Scottish border. Risa is always a lot of fun and it was interesting to hear her talk about her experiences.
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  15. It was really interesting to see someone who doesn't speak Japanese ordering food as opposed to most of the videos on this topic I've seen where someone who does speak Japanese shows you how to do it. Thanks.
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  16.  @LifeWhereImFrom  What does it mean to be able to speak English?
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