Name: シリアルスープですか？ (Is Cereal Soup?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:20:39.000Z
Duration: 8 min 22 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant

"to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do.

What if cereal is actually a type of salad?

Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and

Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding

ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake.

Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer

is whatever we agree the answer should be.

We make up the words and we make up the categories.

If you ask me, cereal is soup, but it's not soup soup.

What I just did there is called reduplication.

Tomorrow's event is fancy, but it's not fancy fancy.

When I say "soup soup" or "salad salad", I

am using reduplication in a way that is known as Contrastive focus reduplication. I am reduplicating

a word to express a focus on prototypical types of that word,

A Caesar or vegetable are more prototypical

types of salad than, say, potato, taco, fruit, or a bowl of cereal with milk.

The increasing progress of technology forces us to contrastively focus reduplicate more

For example, now when talking about a book,

you might need to clarify whether it is an e-book or a book book.

A modification to an old word made necessary by the advent and popularisation of something

Before voicemail and e-mail, snail mail was just mail.

And before mobile phones, your landline or home phone was simply a phone.

This is Morse code for a smiley face emoticon.

which up until as recently as the middle of the 1900s was often used with a dash

It was an especially helpful direction to

all over America's Declaration of Independence.

You may also notice that it looks a little

The Oxford English Dictionary has a name for

Although other emoticons were definitely used

earlier, as far as official dictionary entries are concerned, the very first emoticon with

an official name was an emoticon for a willy.

This also means that America's Declaration

But it's finished. Shouldn't it be called "a drawn"?

A similar version of this problem is often attributed to Steven Wright.

Why are they called buildings if they are finished?

What's really going on here is a phenomenon

It's often easier to "noun-ify" a verb than to just use lots of words.

Why call this a structure resulting from the active of building, when you could just call

Where does the word 'nickname' come from?

Did a guy name Nicholas one day decided everyone could call him Nick and in doing so create

A process in which speakers, often unknowingly, create

new words by moving sounds from one word to another.

For instance, the English word alligator is a corruption of the Spanish "el lagarto" -

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シリアルスープですか？ (Is Cereal Soup?)

phenomenon

vague

exact

fancy