The amount of Hannibal jokes in here makes me think you are the cousin of Hannibal Lecter..

1:02 that face was just awesome xD "Oh shit, my neighbours probably heard me" hahahahah

That slurping sound was on point

If there's a long breath diet. That means there must be a hamon diet. Hohhhh

Japanese: “can I copy your homework?” English: “yeah just change it a bit so it doesn’t look obvious”

すごい。ほんとにすごい。うちのクラスメイト、カリフォルニアへの1年間の留学で6キロ太ったって言ってました。ほんとに。なぜ6キロ.....? その共通点はなんだ。

It's pretty apt that while you in japanese said "... finally start dieting", you translated it in the subtitles to "...finally start exercising". Absolutely perfect :D

A bit of trivia. The word "diet" originally comes from Greek "δίαιτα" which originally meant "way of living one's life" (although in modern usage it has been restricted to the meaning the English word "diet" has). So in a sense, the Japanese usage of the word isn't as far off as it may seem at first, although I doubt the original Greek meaning had a play in altering the Japanese word's meaning

As a native speaker of English who speaks Japanese, I find my brain being pulled in two directions when I watch this video . Because of the subtitles, I have to either close my eyes or turn off the volume, but I can't simultaneously watch and listen without having to go back multiple times.

It has nothing to do with foods! Golden.

Why Japanese people!?の進化版みたいな？笑 日本語上手すぎるしgagセンスいいですね！😏

Where was this gem buried?? Why am I only seeing it now??? God bless the algorithm (sometimes)! I think we've found an unintentional positive side effect of your reuploading your older gags!

There is something magical about speakng a second language at this level. It gives impression of transfiguration, inhabiting a different persona. Kind of like an actor stepping from the wings onto the stage and becoming the person in the role.

Huh....when i think gag i think like choking (eg: on your food)

勉強になった。

日本語上手すぎるし話の組み立て方が最高すぎるwwww レクター博士がギャグのとこでも出てきて夜中なのに声出して笑ったwwww

「どれも食事に関係がないのです！」 Such a なんでやねん！ moment. ワロタ。

I forgot what gag means in a roleplay of something XD HOW DID I BECOME THIS INNOCENT?

pleeeaaase do more of these with “english” words that have made their way into katakana with a different meaning. it is a daily struggle and I can’t explain it as well as you do lmao

So wait... If there are lower back muscle diets... That means... I'm on a treadmill diet lol Just found your channel and it is already amazing in my eyes

New viewers here. I am amazed at the amount of humor and information in your videos. Genius.

Great job, Clarice!

The cuts provide an amazing delivery

As someone who is learning Japanese, ありがとうございます。This is helping with pronounciation and getting used to the speed while also being entertaining

I'm not trying to learn Japanese, yet as someone who's learning English, I found the latter really informative! thanks!

At the end of the video I was like "Wait.. I know this theme..." sure enough it's BOSSFIGHT! I was really surprised to see that you're using Bossfight music for your videos, I love them.

I'm pretty sure the most colloquial use of "gag" is as a synonym for "joke". No one will misinterpet it, unless you use it as a verb.

When i hear the word gag i first think of the muscle spasm you get when you have smelled/tasted something bad enough to make you almost vomit. Good luck, English students

I love your channel, I'm not even north American, I don't even speak Japanese, idk, suddenly one day I found your channel and here I am, deciphering the things you say

These videos are great.

I'm kinda wondering if the misuse of "diet" might actually come from some sort of misunderstanding or mistake with the word "regimen" (which incidentally is very similar to the french word for 'diet', "régime"). Who knows? (also yes, this comment is really late but I've only just discovered this channel today so that can't be helped! I'm studying Japanese, or rather, trying to improve my Japanese level for my job, and your videos are hilarious + remind me of some situations I've encountered while I was studying in Japan, which makes them even funnier to me :D)

My friend from Japan came to the us for her exchange and randomly started eating salad about 3 months into it and I was like, "Why have you been eating nothing but salad recently?" And she was like, "I gained 10 pounds in three months 😭. I'm on a diet." I found that so hilarious. I didn't know it was trend for exchange students to gain so much weight, but I guess that makes sense lol.

これは、為になるわ

Diet can be also used as paraphrasing a set of behaviors imposed on oneself. So it makes sense to use that word in other contexts besides food.

Never been to Japan not going not learning but loving these vids. N the beanie is cool too.

めっちゃ日本語お上手ですね！

Well, in Brazilian Portuguese Diet has more in common with the original greek word δῐ́αιτᾰ (díaita). Which means way of life. And most of δῐ́αιτᾰ derivatives invokes a "regular way of willing/doing". SO it wouldn't it be strange for me to say, "I have a diet of being pedantic in youtube commentary section"

How do you get so good at these.... I'm jist in the middle of N4 and it already feels really hard to even remeber anymore kanji and vocab.... 😢😢

Doing an image search for "gag" would naturally come up with the restraint kind because the other kind isn't really a physical object, more an idea or a verbal sort of thing. It raises the question of what exactly it would look like as an image, since putting still images of gags from tv shows and the like wouldn't really get the point across...

You sir are a legend

seeing Dogen speak english is a surreal experience

I like how you used Japanese subtitles when speaking english just like how you usually do vice-versa with english subtitles when speaking in Japanese just in case a Japanese person is watching. Also on another note, great video funny as always! Thank the ALMIGHTY ALGORITHM!

Dogen......ya re ya re, that was amazing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Actually, the english is wrong you could say. the word diet originates from the greek díaita, which means something like lifestyle or way of life. The japanese are just using the original greek meaning.

1:52 "they'll think you're Hannibal Lecter's overweight cousin " I died laughing 😁 😂 But I got revived to type this comment

I love this older end music so much.. is there a place to buy or download it?

I would never think of "gag" as anything but a joke if used in a positive sense. I think this may be regional.

Yeah, a lot of my jokes were dismissed as "Oyajigyagu." "John-san, mochi suki desu ka" "Hai! Mochi-ron!"

1:18 ここすごーく大事

Dogen, you clearly missed the opportunity to call the whole japanese political system. Japan's diet.

This isnt just Japanese, this is straight up the bases of stand up comedy

The diet one isn't as off as you might think. Look up the "sleep diet" and "sensory diets" in English. A sleep diet is habits you have set up in order to get better sleep, and sensory diets is adjusting your habits to avoid sensory overload which is a common problem for people with Autism.

Dogen was so spirited in this video!

I’m Japanese and when I learned that “diet” doesn’t mean losing weight , it was pretty shocking. There are a lot of English words we use that have almost nothing to do with the original meaning whatsoever. Why Japan? Why…

I started studying Japanese 2 weeks ago and I can't help but feel so far from my goal when I watch your videos. I constantly have to remind myself that if I keep practicing, I might one day reach the same level of fluency.

Do you make all these videos on the same day, or do you just have a favorite shirt and hat to wear when you make a vid?

Truly a great gag sketch

Damn a song by Bossfight himself? Very cooool!

Another one: American “sense” and Japanese “センス” are completely different

The one that still makes me confused is Diet from the Japanese parliament

気になる 木になる きになる

tbf often times when the words cannibal and japanese come up we think of Issei Sagawa

Dogenさん、あなた、完璧だ！ 面白すぎし、たくさん習えるよ。 今日、サブスクライブした。今、チャンネルを全部見続いています

Lmaoooo this was good content!

I was shocked when my scuba diving instructor cheerfully ended my trial lessons by saying I should have my revenge! LOL Apparently "revenge" means "try again"....and isn't used to mean "take vengeance". Fascinating! I guess, it makes sense considering how competitive the Japanese Samurai Spirit is.

1:01 He is surprised too

Another weird one I have in mind is "Delicate"

That was great 😂

I'm not sure if someone else has made this comment, but I feel like we also use "diet" for non-food related terms in English as well. Specifically, when it comes to restricting yourself from something. Maybe "on a diet from social media". Then, I have seen similar usage in Japanese, e.g. a book I read with the title "思考のダイエット"

面白過ぎ 芸人なればいいのに笑

This video could be about South Korea instead of Japan and it would still perfectly make sense.

For the sake of descriptivism I must say that this is a pretty normal phenomenon. A word gets directly borrowed from one lang to another, then it's meaning can widen, shorten or otherwise shift away from the original depending on the semantic field of the same concept in the new language. It's part of natural language evolution. Let's say in country x, people wear their national kind of weird looking hats. They have a word for hats - xhats. Then, in the neighboring country y, their word for hats is yhats. But they borrow the word xhats from language x as well. Since they have their own word already, they only use 'xhats' to refer to national weird looking hats from country x. In language x, xhats means all kinds of hats, in language y, xhats shifted to refer to a specific kind of hats, the meaning narrowed down to be more helpful and provide for better communicative function in it's new semantic field of things related to hats. That's how it works essentially. E.g. the german word aktuell or russian word актуально refers to something that is "relevant to the current situation, has importance in the modern times, fits the context of recent events, etc." The english word 'actual' means "existing for real". The similarity is that all three have to do with the "now" and "truth", the difference is that the english word describes facts as is, while russian/german ones describe the relevance of an abstract idea. When you say "This is an actual problem", you state that this is the problem that is real. When you say "Das ist ein aktuelles Problem", you say that the problem is very relevant today and you emphasize on today, on top of that you vividly imply that something has to be done by someone about it, while in the english sentence that isn't necessarily the case. Another example is russian slang word 'го', derived from english 'go'. People used it as 'lets go' as in "го в доту" - "let's go play dota". Or "го на улицу" - "let's go outside". Eventually the meaning shifted to just 'let's' and now you can say "го просто посидим почиллим" which would make perfect sense and mean "let's just sit and chill". This is obviously slang, but still, it's funny how in russian you can use a word that was originally an imperative 'go' to heavily incite doing the exact opposite of 'going'. What I'm trying to say is that foreign words aren't really foreign. Their origin is, but they aren't really 'borrowed', they are duplicated into the new language, and that duplicate belongs fully and entirely to that language now. It's an intrinsic new word basically that never existed in its original language because it's a freshly printed duplicate that exists seperately from it's original in the original language. And since languages evolve, words in them shift meanings, all, including those of foreign origin. There is no reason to think that young foreign words would somehow be static when all other words are not. And since any two languages are separate languages, words in it, even of the same origin, shift meanings independently. Most of the times, cognates do mean the same shit though and don't shift apart far enough for it to be noticeable, but sometimes it happens, so it's healthy to be on guard with it. I guess my message is: diet and ダイエットare different words from different languages, regardless of how related they are. And it's ok that their meanings may start to differ. This is but one linguistic phenomenon we may be happy enough to live through and observe ourselves in our time of occurence, in its environment through our own mind. One shouldn't be resentful about it nor oppose it. It's a normal thing, like any other linguistic phenomena. Embrace it. Though, like Dougen said, a japanese person can fuck up and say "lowe back muscle diet" in english if not careful. So be wary of shit like that.

Diet in my country also doesn't have anything to do with Food. It's with not eating food.

"Weird Japanese Words" >talks about English words

pokevolves lmao but what you should really use is digivolve, because pokemon just evolve but digimon do specifically digivolve

omg you're brilliant! Pokevolves lol

OMG HAHAHAHA when he threw the script 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"pokevolves" 🤣😂😍

1:50 Lekuta Hakase

The laugh joke was really funny.

Maybe because this is an old video, i found Dogen ia more attractive here🤔

for how long did you study japanese to be that good? :S

Sorry my listening skills are bad. What term did he use for cannibal? jinniku/hitokui/shokujin?

As a japanese, I've never thought that "lower back musle diet" was wrong usage ...very funny!🤣

gonna start the "Legislation Diet"

I was confused when I went to Japan and walked past the "National Diet Building"

気をつけます、、

You are so good at presenting exactly everything that irritates me in japan with a funny and nice manner. I just get angry.

だからアレ、ギャグボールって言うのか またひとつ賢くなった

what about Diet Building ?... i saw that in Tokyo.

Welllllll, "lower back muscle diet", "shoulder blade diet", "ultimate 7 minutes vertebrae diet" can be legit diets... if you do eat those things :)

Le Issei Sagawa moment has unfortunately arrived

レクター博士大好きやん❤︎

レクター博士の汎用性高すぎw

Now where do I know that song in the outro from?

I feel like it would be easier to be Dr. Lecter than to fix my English...🧠🫀🫁

Quite a few languages have sorts of shenanigans. I like how in portuguese the word regime can mean a diet or a kind of government.

In Japan, the word "mileage" is getting a lot of mileage where there is no travel or distance is involved too. "Mileage" apparently means "points"!

Lol just found this gem

"pokevolves" good bye im done XD