About This Site
Currently, I write short texts in English every day on a language exchange social networking website called Lang-8. At first, I mainly wrote it in a diary format, but at some point, fodders for my diary have gradually disappeared, and I began to write etymologies of Japanese terms and trivial things in English. I’d like to leave these article archives here.
私は現在 lang-8 という添削サイトで、毎日英語で短い文章を書いています。主な内容は、日本語の語源、ちょっとした雑学、日記などです。ここにその記録を残します。
Article archives (new)
私は現在 lang-8 という添削サイトで、毎日英語で短い文章を書いています。主な内容は、日本語の語源、ちょっとした雑学、日記などです。ここにその記録を残します。
Toru Kano (加納 徹)
| 【No. 0403】Cold Wave | Jan 25, 2016 |
| 【No. 0402】High Quality Sleep | Jan 24, 2016 |
| 【No. 0401】The Color of Death | Jan 23, 2016 |
| 【No. 0400】An Automatic Door | Jan 22, 2016 |
| 【No. 0399】Lovejoy Comet | Jan 21, 2016 |
| 【No. 0398】Snow Shoveling | Jan 20, 2016 |
| 【No. 0397】There’s No Limit to Things (Ue niwa ue ga aru) | Jan 19, 2016 |
| 【No. 0396】Warm Snow Day | Jan 18, 2016 |
| 【No. 0395】Cows Have Best Friends | Jan 17, 2016 |
| 【No. 0394】Body Fat Percentage of Pigs | Jan 16, 2016 |
| 【No. 0393】Classroom Cleaning | Jan 15, 2016 |
| 【No. 0392】Three Events | Jan 14, 2016 |
| 【No. 0391】Tickling Sensation | Jan 13, 2016 |
| 【No. 0390】Obesity Rate | Jan 12, 2016 |
| 【No. 0389】Polar Bear Trivia | Jan 11, 2016 |
| 【No. 0388】Age of Mario | Jan 10, 2016 |
| 【No. 0387】National Fungus | Jan 09, 2016 |
| 【No. 0386】National Gemstone | Jan 08, 2016 |
| 【No. 0385】Snails | Jan 07, 2016 |
| 【No. 0384】First-time Job Interview | Jan 06, 2016 |
| 【No. 0383】Sneeze | Jan 05, 2016 |
| 【No. 0382】Holiday | Jan 04, 2016 |
| 【No. 0381】Homecoming | Jan 03, 2016 |
| 【No. 0380】First Dream of the Year | Jan 02, 2016 |
| 【No. 0379】Year Resolutions in 2016 | Jan 01, 2016 |
| 【No. 0378】MacBook Air | Dec 31, 2015 |
| 【No. 0377】Year-Crossing Noodles | Dec 30, 2015 |
| 【No. 0376】Rotation Direction of Screws | Dec 29, 2015 |
| 【No. 0375】Certificate Exam of Santa Claus | Dec 28, 2015 |
| 【No. 0374】Delicious Mikan (Mandarin Orange) | Dec 27, 2015 |
| 【No. 0373】Zebra Trivia | Dec 26, 2015 |
| 【No. 0372】Christmas Trivia | Dec 25, 2015 |
| 【No. 0371】Christmas Cake | Dec 24, 2015 |
| 【No. 0370】The Emperor’s Birthday | Dec 23, 2015 |
| 【No. 0369】Winter Solstice | Dec 22, 2015 |
| 【No. 0368】Cheetah and Zebra | Dec 21, 2015 |
| 【No. 0367】Kilimanjaro | Dec 20, 2015 |
| 【No. 0366】Premium Registration | Dec 19, 2015 |
| 【No. 0365】365 | Dec 18, 2015 |
| 【No. 0364】Bookworm | Dec 17, 2015 |
| 【No. 0363】Boring things (Tsumaranai mono) | Dec 16, 2015 |
| 【No. 0362】Pulling Out Beards | Dec 15, 2015 |
| 【No. 0361】The Diameter of Holes in CDs | Dec 14, 2015 |
| 【No. 0360】Janet’s Law | Dec 13, 2015 |
| 【No. 0359】Should We Eat Breakfast? | Dec 12, 2015 |
| 【No. 0358】Honey Trivia | Dec 11, 2015 |
| 【No. 0357】Bees’ Waggle Dance | Dec 10, 2015 |
| 【No. 0356】Japanese Titles of Foreign Movies | Dec 09, 2015 |
| 【No. 0355】Ground Beetle | Dec 08, 2015 |
| 【No. 0354】Should I capitalize ‘X’ in ‘X-ray?’ | Dec 07, 2015 |
| 【No. 0353】The Temperature of Palms | Dec 06, 2015 |
| 【No. 0352】Sundry and Various | Dec 05, 2015 |
| 【No. 0351】Insect Food | Dec 04, 2015 |
| 【No. 0350】Escalator | Dec 03, 2015 |
| 【No. 0349】Contact Lens | Dec 02, 2015 |
| 【No. 0348】Hotchkiss | Dec 01, 2015 |
| 【No. 0347】November 29 | Nov 30, 2015 |
| 【No. 0346】Cats and Fish | Nov 29, 2015 |
| 【No. 0345】Japanese Numeral | Nov 28, 2015 |
| 【No. 0344】Forest Bath | Nov 27, 2015 |
| 【No. 0343】Mirrors in Elevators | Nov 26, 2015 |
| 【No. 0342】Trivia about the One Yen Coin | Nov 25, 2015 |
| 【No. 0341】Danger of Pajamas | Nov 24, 2015 |
| 【No. 0340】Preliminary Review of Doctoral Degrees | Nov 23, 2015 |
| 【No. 0339】10000 words | Nov 22, 2015 |
| 【No. 0338】Silver Ratio | Nov 21, 2015 |
| 【No. 0337】Snot and Booger | Nov 20, 2015 |
| 【No. 0336】Knot Theory | Nov 19, 2015 |
| 【No. 0335】Recursion | Nov 18, 2015 |
| 【No. 0334】10K Day | Nov 17, 2015 |
| 【No. 0333】A Little Cool Usage of “こと(koto) | Nov 16, 2015 |
| 【No. 0332】Ruby and Sapphire | Nov 15, 2015 |
| 【No. 0331】Buying a Dolce Gusto Manufactured by Nescafe | Nov 14, 2015 |
| 【No. 0330】Foliage Plants in Banks | Nov 13, 2015 |
| 【No. 0329】Belly Button Trivia | Nov 12, 2015 |
| 【No. 0328】Habituation | Nov 11, 2015 |
| 【No. 0327】Ring Alert | Nov 10, 2015 |
| 【No. 0326】Bought an Electronic Notebook | Nov 09, 2015 |
| 【No. 0325】Etymology of Kanpeki (完璧) | Nov 08, 2015 |
| 【No. 0324】The 4-7-8 Breathing Technique | Nov 07, 2015 |
| 【No. 0323】Spatial Ability | Nov 06, 2015 |
| 【No. 0322】Buttons on Sleeves of School Uniforms | Nov 05, 2015 |
| 【No. 0321】Chin-chin (dialect) | Nov 04, 2015 |
| 【No. 0320】Drop-kick | Nov 03, 2015 |
| 【No. 0319】Taste of Your Tears | Nov 02, 2015 |
| 【No. 0318】Proverbs about Failure | Nov 01, 2015 |
| 【No. 0317】Kachin to kuru” and “Kochin to kuru | Oct 31, 2015 |
| 【No. 0316】The Meaning of Aka (Red) | Oct 30, 2015 |
| 【No. 0315】Ichi-moku Oku | Oct 29, 2015 |
| 【No. 0314】Mayonnaise | Oct 28, 2015 |
| 【No. 0313】Price of Beer | Oct 27, 2015 |
| 【No. 0312】Suspicious Individual | Oct 26, 2015 |
| 【No. 0311】White Chocolate | Oct 25, 2015 |
| 【No. 0310】School Festival | Oct 24, 2015 |
| 【No. 0309】Furin (wind chimes) | Oct 23, 2015 |
| 【No. 0308】Let’s Count Six Seconds | Oct 22, 2015 |
| 【No. 0307】Sleeping After Waking Up | Oct 21, 2015 |
| 【No. 0306】Evolved Washlet | Oct 20, 2015 |
| 【No. 0305】Cunning | Oct 19, 2015 |
| 【No. 0304】Limit of Heartbeat | Oct 18, 2015 |