I was in the elevator at our apartment building
and I was holding a beer, a box of beer with 15 cans inside it.
and I was in an elevator with an old woman
and she talked to me suddenly. She said 'oh are you gonna have a party?'
and I said 'no this is my daily beer'
and then she lost her words.
She was quite surprised. She didn't say anything...
I thought okay maybe she was surprised that I'm small like Asian girl.
she was not thinking like an Asian girl don't drink beer or something.
So I though ah yeah....
We didn't say anything after that.
When I talked about this situation to him, he laughed.
He laughed quite a lot so...
We will explain what was the wrong.
Why I shouldn't say 'daily beer.'
In this situation when I said 'oh this is my daily beer', what does it mean actually?
S: So her question to you was...
You have a box of beer. There are 15 cans of the beer.
What are you going to do with 15 cans of beer.
Y: I meant like I would drink one beer each day.
S: Yep. Yeah, one beer each day right?
But the expression 'daily beer'
means this is the amount that you will drink each day.
Y: Each day? S: Each day.
So she said 'what are those 15 beers for?'
You said 'this is my daily beer.' She understood
"I drink 15 beers each day"
Y: This is today's. I'll get tomorrow 15 beers. S: Tomorrow there will be another 15 beers.
That will be tomorrow's daily beer.
Y: This is my daily beer.
S: Yeah, it's like saying this is my dinner.
Y: I'm super alcoholic. S: Yeah.
S: So the reason she stopped talking was because she thought wow
Y: Crazy alcoholic Japanese girl... S: You are a very very very honest alcoholic.
Expressing how much beer you drink.
And very calmly 'oh no this is my daily beer.'
Y: Just crazy girl. S: Just crazy.... crazy girl.
S: Wow you drink a lot! Y: Okay, bye!
S: And then she stopped talking.
Y: So what should I have said?
S: What you are trying to describe was that
this beer is not for a special purpose.
Y: Not for a party. S: Not for a party. It's not for... another person either.
S: It is for me but I will drink this over many days.
Y: Not only that day. S: Not just today but I will drink this you know whenever I feel like it
however long it lasts, right?
So this is the kind of thing that you buy but usually quite cheap
and you have it in your house and then you use it whenever you want and
there's a word for that and it's called 'everyday'
Single word, adjective.
everyday something
So what you should have said was
'what are you gonna do with all this beer?' 'this is my everyday beer'
S: What she would have understood by that is that
oh you know I drink beer each day and so it's nothing special it's just...
maybe just a way to think about it...I am restocking my fridge.
I am putting more beers back into my storage
for everyday use.
Y: Just normal beer that kind of thing? S: Exactly.
S: There are some other things that maybe you can describe as everyday.
For example shoes
Most people have a pair of shoes but they wear each day.
Y: Not special high heels nor not fancy shoes. S: Your comfortable shoes.
S: Those are your everyday shoes everyday shoes.
Y: Everyday shoes. S: Everyday clothes yeah.
Y: Just T-shirt and jeans. S: Yeah, T-shirt and jeans whatever, nothing special.
S: Ordinary, regular kind of stuff.
Y: Then what's the good example using 'daily'?
S: So 'daily' so this is the important thing about why she was stunned
because when you describe something as daily
it means that it's something that happens every single day.
All the time
A good example is in the airline industry.
They say they have daily flights.
And that means you know Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
There is a flight from Vancouver to Tokyo.
There is a daily flight.
Y: So can I say 'I drink beer daily'? S: Yes.
But only if you drink a beer every day.
Which she does, she drinks beer every day. Y: Not these days.
'I drink beer daily' and 'I drink beer every day' is the same? S: Yes.
Y: every day but two wards. every day
S: That is a small important difference is that
the adjective form... Y: One word everyday
S: And if you are using an adverb... Y: Two words
Y: I think many Japanese know how to use 'every day'
But one word adjective 'everyday' is a bit... I think it's quite new for many people.