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B1 中級 英語 10:53 Educational

When Will We Run Out Of Names?

Vsauce · 16,841,583 回視聴 · 追加日 2ヶ月前

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Hey, Vsauce.

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Michael here. According to the U.S. Census Bureau

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right now, in America, there are 106

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people named Harry Potter. 1 007

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named James Bond and eight people

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named Justin Bieber. They're just

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aren't enough names to go around.

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There are more than 300 million people

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in America but a hundred and fifty thousand last names and five thousand

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first names

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is all you need to name 9 out of every

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10 of them. When are we gonna run out of names?

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Perhaps it's already happened to you.

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If it hasn't, when? Ten years, twenty years, a hundred, a thousand.

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When will someone with your exact name

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become famous? So famous in fact that your legacy

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changes forever to just being not

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the person people think of when they hear your name.

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And for that matter, when will every reasonably memorable pronounceable

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band name or brand name be taken?

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When will authors have no choice but to just start reusing book titles?

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According to Rovi Corp, owner of AllMusic.com,

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the most used band name is 'Bliss',

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followed in order by 'Mirage', 'One',

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'Gemini', 'Legacy', 'Paradox'

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and 'Rain'. In the past when

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fewer bands had already been created and you couldn't just Google up

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every single band, overlap was easier to get away with

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and one word band names were plentiful. But now, after years and years and years

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of

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band formation, well, we have

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'The Who', but we also have 'The What?',

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'The Where', 'The When', 'The Why', 'The How'

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and even 'The The'.

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In order to stand out now, and have your own unique name,

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