Reader's Digest 2月号 - "Manchuria Journey" の記事にあった表現です。
Later, as I walk through the campus gate, I come across 40 or so students bundled in scarves and coats. They are shouting English phrases: "I'm fed up with him!" "I'm not myself today!" "Over my dead body!"
The non-sequiturs come from a series of language-learning books called Crazy English.
中国の "Crazy English" は以前海外ニュースでちょっと目にした事がありますが、それはともかく、"non-sequiturs" あるいは "sequitur" の意味が分からないので辞書を引きます。 "sequitur" はラテン語で、一般的には否定形の "non-sequitur" あるいは "non sequitur" が使われる様です。
:・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
1. an inference that does not follow from the premises; specifically: a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent
2. a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
Examples of NON SEQUITUR: We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog.
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a statement which does not seem to be connected with what has just been said.; 'Have you arranged for us to visit Eileen?' I asked. 'But I thought you were coming by train', said Gwen, in what seemed a complete non sequitur.
:・Wiktionary: From the Latin phrase nōn sequitur (“it does not follow”), from nōn (“not”) + sequitur (third-person form of sequor (“I follow”)); in Latin, the phrase sees no use as a noun. Compare sequence, from same root.
なるほど、 "sequitur" が "sequence" の仲間だと知ると憶えられそうです。
Later, as I walk through the campus gate, I come across 40 or so students bundled in scarves and coats. They are shouting English phrases: "I'm fed up with him!" "I'm not myself today!" "Over my dead body!"
The non-sequiturs come from a series of language-learning books called Crazy English.
中国の "Crazy English" は以前海外ニュースでちょっと目にした事がありますが、それはともかく、"non-sequiturs" あるいは "sequitur" の意味が分からないので辞書を引きます。 "sequitur" はラテン語で、一般的には否定形の "non-sequitur" あるいは "non sequitur" が使われる様です。
:・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
1. an inference that does not follow from the premises; specifically: a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent
2. a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
Examples of NON SEQUITUR: We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog.
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a statement which does not seem to be connected with what has just been said.; 'Have you arranged for us to visit Eileen?' I asked. 'But I thought you were coming by train', said Gwen, in what seemed a complete non sequitur.
:・Wiktionary: From the Latin phrase nōn sequitur (“it does not follow”), from nōn (“not”) + sequitur (third-person form of sequor (“I follow”)); in Latin, the phrase sees no use as a noun. Compare sequence, from same root.
なるほど、 "sequitur" が "sequence" の仲間だと知ると憶えられそうです。
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