Let's write in English!コミュのStrange English

When you'r learning English or speaking, do you strenge think why English say such that? In Japan It isn't such wording.

Here you write to think strange English words or writing.

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[1] mixiユーザー 05月12日 21:18

I learned some phrase last month.

Somebody tells another unlikely, for example, "Please buy me a Benz!" Then another person answer, "It isn't millenniam day!"

In Japan, a stranger tell me, I completely ignore him, or say directly「バッカじゃないの？」「アホか！」「ふざけんのもいい加減にしろ」「彼女に買ってもらえ！」「イカれてんじゃないの？」etc....

but in English, "It isn't millenniam day!"

I thought English including christ history.

uuuuuuuuum........language have deep meaning, you know?

[2] mixiユーザー 05月12日 21:51

Kamisan, English contains many colourful expressions which mean "that would never happen." "It isn't millenium day!" is one of them though it is relatively new, used since the millenium of course. Also, "When pigs can fly," "When hell freezes over," and so on. Since millenium day only happens one day in one thousand years they were implying that there was little or no chance it would happen today.

[3] mixiユーザー 05月13日 06:40

Hi, ハリsan
Thank you for your comment.
I agree your comment and English is falstaffian.
But it seems strang wording for Japanese.
Do Japanese people have to adjust to the English wording for worldwide activity?
I teach Japanese language a internet school but almost students want to learn English.
Why a lot of people want to learn English? The person who ask such question is also learning English.........

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