One-room... me-too... two-room. I know what a "one-room" is, because I live in one: it's a shoebox studio. I know what a "two-room" is, because our university had tempted me with one before The Powers That Be decided to put me in the shoebox: it's a larger apartment—not quite as large as my palatial digs* in Front Royal, Virginia, but about twice as large as my current bachelor pad.
So what's a "me-too"? Something in between? I need to look this expression up.
*Almost 900 square feet, 1.5 bathrooms and 2 bedrooms, plus a kitchenette with actual counter space and cabinet space. Tiny studios are interesting because of the space-management challenges they present. Luckily, there's the old man.
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I bet I'd love watching the old man work.
ReplyDeleteI had not heard the term 미투 either, and my curiosity compelled me to look it up.
ReplyDelete미투 is short for 미니투룸. So what's the difference between a two-room and a mini two-room? It boils down to whether the rooms are independent of each other. In a two-room, you may have the two-rooms off a central living room, so each room is independent of the other. In a mini two-room, though, you would have to go through room #1 to get to room #2--you wouldn't be able to access #2 any other way.
You learn something new every day, I guess.
(No, I did not know what it meant either before I read this post... but my curiosity was too great and I couldn't help looking it up.)
So my intuition that a "미투" was between a "one-room" and a "two-room" was correct, but my guess that "미투" meant "me, too" was flat-out wrong. Thanks.
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