Name: 英語家庭教師ニックPレッスン(299) 機能不全と機能不全の違い (English Tutor Nick P Lesson (299) The Difference Between Malfunction and Dysfunction)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 299. Today we're going to  look at the

difference between malfunction and dysfunction and of course any other

forms of it. You know,  like the adjective malfunctional or dysfunctional or you

know malfunction of a verb. Of course,  will say will follow the same meaning as

malfunction as a noun and adjective as well. So let's take a look at the note

here. A malfunction means something has an incorrect or faulty function.

It basically means something does not work correctly,  especially used with

machines. Malfunction tends to be used for single events you know something

that happened. It malfunctioned at that time. So it's not usually used for

ongoing or continuing events. At least you know,  with the same person or with

the same exact object. Okay. Let's take a look at the second one here. Well, let's

continue with the note here. If something has a dysfunction,  it means something

fails to work in an expected way or in a complete way. Dysfunction or

dysfunctional as an adjective is especially used in regard to medical or

psychological terms. It is often used with disorders or if a bodily organ

doesn't work correctly in your body something like that,  is not working.

Dysfunction tends to be used with events that are ongoing or continuing or more

long-term. So there's another clear difference between the two. All right. And

let's look at some examples we have here.  GM had to have a recall. A  recall that's

when you know there's a problem with the car and they,  they ask everybody who

bought the card to bring it back in , and they change a certain part. So GM had to

have a recall due to a malfunction in that part. So one part was not working

correctly. So again this is with machines and you know it's just one part that's

not working. So we usually would use malfunction for that.

Yeah. We don't usually say a dysfunctional part. That would be weird.

So again,  with machines we almost always use malfunction. The computer system is

malfunctioning. Again here we're using it as a verb. It must have a bug or maybe a

virus or something like that in it. So again,  it's not working correctly it's

not working properly. Okay.  Number three. Again the that voting

machine seemed to be malfunctioning.  Many voters complained that they voted for

one candidate and it recorded the votes for the opposite candidate.  Yeah. That's a

big problem. In some elections,  this happened. So that voting machine was

malfunctioning,  was not functioning correctly. All right. Let's look at number

four. He comes from a dysfunctional family. All right.  Yeah. Now we're getting

into like psychological terms or you know something to do with medicine. You

know,  the dysfunctional families. A family that's not working properly,  especially

in regard to behavior. All right. Let's continue. Number four. He comes from a

dysfunctional family. Oh no,  That's what we just read so number five.  Grandpa

is suffering from a kidney and liver dysfunction. All right. It's your body parts.

It's a body part that's not working correctly. So yeah we don't usually say a

malfunctioning  kidney. We usually say dysfunction or dysfunctioning or

dysfunctional kidney. All right. Let's continue. She is showing signs of

dysfunctional behavior. Again. remember both medical and psychological terms in this

sense will probably use dysfunctional.  And number seven. He is suffering from

erectile dysfunction. It's one of the ways they like to say it. If some poor guy

you know,  he's a sexual part is not working in regards to sex anymore. You

know,  it's a it's not getting you know hard like it supposed to. That's referred

to as erectile dysfunction. So that's another common way that you hear this

used.  Anyway,  I hope it's clear.  I hope,  I hope you have a better sense of when you

should use malfunction and when you should use dysfunction. Okay. Bye-bye.