Monday, January 28, 2013

By mutual consent

We Japanese call a wall socket/outlet "コンセント (consent(o))"

I had no idea that the word "コンセント (consent)"  is
a Japanese-English (Japanglish ) until today.


I thought the word "consent" described a socket/outlet exactly.

Like...

A socket/outlet  and a plug connect with each other by mutual consent!

They say, the Japanese name, コンセント (consento), comes from "concentric plug,"
which may also be scarcely used in english speaking countries.


--To read this post in Japanese, click here.

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