So…Once again been trying to bolster my language exposure via, uh…unorthodox means, and as such, I’m running into a lot of uncommon vocab.

I’m listening to a CD called オジサマ専科; the 「オジサマ」 refers to the fact that the cast has an average age of about thirty, but I don’t quite get the 専科 part. Most sources I’ve checked define it as an either an elective or specialized course (I’m guessing something like college classes), but I don’t really know what the title as a whole is supposed to imply.

To be fair, there are a lot of color words that are “noun-iro/shoku”, 空色、水色、etc. A lot of anime, book or song titles also play on this fact: 夢色パティシエール means dream-colored pastry chef, ‘cos “Dream-colored” sounds darn cool. I imagine there’s also things with titles like love-colored, joy-colored, etc.
Ceiling-colored, though…doesn’t really convey a whole lot.Even if context is established, I’m guessing you’d want to say 天井の色, as in the color of this ceiling, and not just ceilings in general.

I could be way off, though. ^_^;;

もう一度、ありがとう。^__^

Alright, so I’ve been watching Minami-Ke, and in episode seven, there’s a running gag involving the fact that the class president (she coordinates all the cleaning tasks and such) is constantly addressed as ‘a badass’. It’s a pun based on the fact that 番長（ばんちょう）sounds similar to what’s they’re supposed to call her.

Unfortunately for me, I can’t quite hear whether they’re calling her. It sounds to me like いんちょう, which usually means ‘director’, but a friend of mine hears it as いいんちょう (‘comittee chairman’) which would also make sense.

クラス院長
クラス委員長

Does anyone here with a knowledge of school-related terms know which it’s more likely to be?

Is there a way to say “X is short for Y”? Like how ‘Dick’ is short for Richard, or how 声優 is abbreviated from 声の俳優.

@TripMasterMunky: 四 is usually read よん because し is also a possible reading for 死, which means death. You can read a lot about it online, like here and here on Tofugu; there’s even a TVTropes page on it.

As for 七 being read なな, I don’t know, but I’m guessing it has to do with something similar, since しち can mean a place to die when written 死地。

@Fox: Jisho has an entry for 何事も but not 何事でも. Is it one of those things like 仕方(が)ない where it can be said either way? Does the で make any difference?

I was pretty sleep-deprived yesterday, and looking it at now, I must have misread a few things. I’m not sure why I thought there needed to be a verb, but even right now I’m wondering why there isn’t a particle in between 何事でも and 三日坊主. Because right now I’m reading it “As for him, anything he’s a three day monk”. 何事でも and 三日坊主 are both nouns, so shouldn’t there be some kind of particle to say that he’s like that with anything (は maybe?)

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I’m waiting for a more stable release, too.

The free podcasts are designed to be like that. That way, you’ll sign up in order to get what you need.

What a friend of mine did, however, (and what I’d probably do if JPod’s presentation was more to my tastes) was to sign up for the free premium account taster with an old/rarely used email address and then just mass-download each season one by one. I’d imagine it’d take a while, and be mind-numbing as heck, but if you’re not interested in paying for a subscription, it’s the only other way to get your hands on the complete courses.