Power_outage

"The power never goes out in Japan?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxaA1_cPJwU

https://youtu.be/vxaA1_cPJwU?t=21

Hey everyone, Kanadjinsan here, and today I'm going to be talking to of just some random fact that I've thought about in the past. I don't really think anyone has ever made a video on this topic so I decided to just throw it out there. Has to do with the power in Japan.

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The 'to of' is just a minor speech error, no biggie.
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I was born in Canada and I lived in Canada till I was 21 years old. I live in Tokyo now, but in Canada I lived all across Ontario. My whole childhood I remember several times the power going out.

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So far so good.
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In Japanese power outage is 'Teiden'. And.. in Canada it happens all the time. Especially in the summertime, but you know it could happen in the wintertime too.. it typically happens I'd say three times a year on average.

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A bit sloppy, but it's not a problem. Just casual speech.
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Even if it's not for an extended period of time, some of the time it's out for like an hour, or two or three or four. And it's not out for a very long time. Sometimes it just goes out in the middle of the night, and people's alarm clocks get reset and then you're like oh damn did the power go out or something?

When I moved to Japan, the interesting thing is the power has not went out once. Not even once.

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Would be more correct to word it something like: 'the power has not gone out a single time', but again minor issue.
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Of course the power does go out in Japan, we're not magical people. If there's a big Earthquake and stuff get knocked over you can have no power for a very long time.

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Here's the trouble.

'Of course the power does go out in Japan, we're not magical people'

This is a rather remedial way to express the idea, and I think the fact that it's casual speech falls short of forgiving it. The use of 'we' here is lousy and completely unnecessary. If you were an extraterrestrial talking about their home world, maybe this would work because of the implied exclusivity and implied personal involvement, but otherwise it sounds dreadful.

Here's another more objective way that you could have worded this:

"Of course the power grid is not impervious to outages, it's not magic."

For the next sentence: 'If there's a big Earthquake and stuff get knocked over you can have no power for a very long time.'

I think casual speech is sufficient to forgive the 'get' instead of 'gets', but the 'you can have no power for a very long time' is weak. Stating it this way implies that you have direct experience on the matter, and quite a lot of it. Just some qualifying words would help to express that you are speculating. Even if your speculation is highly logical it is still necessary to express it. For example:

"If there's a big Earthquake and stuff gets knocked over you will probably have no power for a very long time." Or:

"If there's a huge Earthquake for example, I'm sure you'd be without power for a while."

Small, subtle things like this make a big difference to how you sound and would improve the quality of your speech considerably.

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But just for something as simple as a simple regular storm or a really hot day or a snowy day doesn't necessarily cause as much power outages as Canada! And I just thought about it that other day I was just like, you know what? The power like never goes out here.

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'doesn't necessarily cause as much power outages as Canada!'

'as much' should be 'as many', but that is a minor grammatical error.

The main issue here is the 'as much as Canada'. Instead of making this massive generalization and seeming omniscience over the entire country, adjusting the language to show that it's your personal interpretation would help tremendously. For example:

"doesn't necessarily cause as many power outages as it might in Canada!"

or

"doesn't necessarily cause as many power outages as I experienced in Ontario!"

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I've asked some people why the power goes out so much in Canada and why the power doesn't go so much in Japan. Some people have said that you know in japan we have different sources of energy and we have a lot of backup plans just in case something goes wrong. Something can always kick in and help people so people don't even notice these issues that may be going on.

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Problematic generalization. "Why the power goes out so much in Canada", you said you lived in Ontario, how are you vouching for the frequency of outages across the entire country? (and presumably across large time periods, but we'll leave that out) Is three times per year sufficient for 'so much'? I think you were trying to express that Japan's power grid seems to be substantially more reliable by comparison and asking the reason why, but this is a sloppy way to do it.

'in japan we have different sources of energy'

Instead use 'in Japan there are', much more objective and doesn't suffer from implied exclusivity and implied personal involvement problems.

'and we have a lot of backup plans'

Again, I would replace 'we' with 'there are' here. I wouldn't talk like this about my own country. While technically grammatically correct it's expressing something off-center of what you're trying to convey.

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If anyone out there actually does have some more reasons as to why the power goes out so much In Canada and why it doesn't go out so much in Japan, leave a comment below.

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Sentence was restated, so the same criticism applies.
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Also another thing is Japan is really Earthquake proof country, which means that the power cables and stuff like that has to be really stable. So something as simple as you know, a little earthquake or a thunderstorm is not going to knock off the power here.

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To nitpick, this is not 'another thing', should be 'Japan is a really earthquake proof country', and 'power cables and stuff like that has to be really stable' should be 'have to be really stable'.
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So yeah, that just about sums up what I want to say about Japan and the power going on and off. What's it like in your country? I really want to know. What do you do when it goes out, I'd love to hear how it is around the world. Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed this video. Sorry it was a weird one heheh, bye! Power outage!!

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This last part is fine.
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