執筆者 Modern English | 2014年05月08日 | Trivia
English, like all languages, has changed over the years. In modern English, you only have to choose between “you” and “your” to talk about the person you’re speaking to. But English used to have different words for “you” depending on how the word fit into the sentence...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年04月24日 | Trivia
On this day in 1923 Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud published his paper on the ego and id. Although Freud’s theories are no longer widely accepted, they became very popular and influential. The “ego” in Freud’s theory is the conscious self,...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年04月17日 | Trivia
Because the rabbit is a popular symbol of Easter, many people get a new pet rabbit to celebrate. However, a lot of them are not prepared to take care for a rabbit. Rabbits can live more than ten years and need a lot of care, just like a dog. Soon after Easter, many...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年04月10日 | Trivia
“Wow! The concert was so amazing!” “Whatever. You know they’re just lip-syncing.” It’s hard to dance around on stage and sing at the same time, so many performers pretend to sing while playing a recording of themselves singing. They move their lips in sync to the...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年04月03日 | Trivia
“I don’t like to show too much skin so I always swim in a one-piece suit.” In Japanese, a “one-piece” means a dress. In English, though, it often means a bathing suit. A bikini is made of two pieces, but a one-piece swimsuit is all one piece. English native speakers...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年03月27日 | Trivia
If your birthday is today, your zodiac is Aries, the ram. A ram is a male sheep. The female sheep is called a ewe (sounds like “you”). In some kinds of sheep, both rams and ewes have horns. In others, neither have horns. In yet others, only the rams have horns....
