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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| atwood wrote: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Foreign stores such as H&M, Zara,Uniqlo, and Costco made their reputations by offering nice, quality products at very reasonable prices. However when these stores enter the Korean market, the reasonable price factor seems to go out the window. I imagine the same will happen with Ikea. |
Uniqlo and h&m are pretty cheap in Korea. |
But not as cheap as in the U.S., even when sales tax is factored in. But I would still consider them reasonable.
Costco, on the other hand, has prices on many items that are much higher. For example, for muffins you get two packages for the same price as you get one in Korea. I can understand duties making alcohol more expensive, but I wonder why fruit and nuts have to be almost twice as expensive.
Whatever the market will bear, I guess. |
Everything is cheaper in the US. Why even compare. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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I don't like cheap stuff.
Costco, Ikea, just send it straight from the factory line to the garbage pile. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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It is just stuff. If you want to bastardize the English language go right ahead, but don't claim, wrongly as is your habit, that it's correct or in general usage.
The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH gives 476 examples of stuffs. Other than a few foodstuffs, all other examples are verbs.
And as mentioned above, it's Konglish. Koreans have problems with plurals and often pluralize words that are already plural such as staffs for staff members. You've got a lot of stuff to learn. |
Dude, its called slang and casual speaking. Of course its incorrect and its not in general usage.
No, its not Konglish. It's like a blend of hillbilly and ebonics. I'm sorry I should have put a 'z' instead of an 's' to make it proper. 'Stuffz'.
Sometimes you speak the King's English. Sometimes you talk corner or trailer. Dave's is a place where you can talk both.
Lighten up Francis and go have some grape drank. |
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Gnawbert
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Location: The Internet
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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I've heard of stuffs used as a noun plenty of times. Is it correct? No, but now Google and tweet are verbs and nouns so... whatever. Stuffs is is the best way I'd describe everything from Ikea, down to their horse-meat meatballs, which I find rather tasty.
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Food·stuff noun \ˈfüd-ˌstəf\
Definition of FOODSTUFF
: a substance with food value; specifically : the raw material of food before or after processing
See: foodstuff defined for English-language learners »
See: foodstuff defined for kids »
First Known Use of FOODSTUFF:
1872
Rhymes with FOODSTUFF
breadstuff, cream puff, dyestuff, earmuff, enough, feedstuff, greenstuff, handcuff, hang tough, hot stuff, kid stuff, Pine Bluff, rebuff, small stuff.
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foodstuff
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I'm no fan of Ikea, but I do hope they can at least challenge the prices of Korean furniture. I've been appalled by the cost of a sofa here, especially for the low quality material they're often made of. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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It is just stuff. If you want to bastardize the English language go right ahead, but don't claim, wrongly as is your habit, that it's correct or in general usage.
The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH gives 476 examples of stuffs. Other than a few foodstuffs, all other examples are verbs.
And as mentioned above, it's Konglish. Koreans have problems with plurals and often pluralize words that are already plural such as staffs for staff members. You've got a lot of stuff to learn. |
Dude, its called slang and casual speaking. Of course its incorrect and its not in general usage.
No, its not Konglish. It's like a blend of hillbilly and ebonics. I'm sorry I should have put a 'z' instead of an 's' to make it proper. 'Stuffz'.
Sometimes you speak the King's English. Sometimes you talk corner or trailer. Dave's is a place where you can talk both.
Lighten up Francis and go have some grape drank. |
It's Konglish. It's not slang.
Besides, what do you know about how hillbillies and black people speak? What you've seen at the movies?
Just stop talking out of your hat and admit your error. Instead of lightening up with a kid's drink, why not man up--there's your slang. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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It's Konglish. It's not slang.
Besides, what do you know about how hillbillies and black people speak? What you've seen at the movies?
Just stop talking out of your hat and admit your error. Instead of lightening up with a kid's drink, why not man up--there's your slang. |
When said by a Korean, its Konglish. When said by someone from back home, its just the way peoples speak.
You know like "Me and my peoples" rather than "Me and my people". Haven't you ever listened to a rap song? This wasn't some essay. This was a 2 line post on Dave's blasting IKEA.
I grew up on a farm and my roommate of 5 years was black and half my coworkers were black, the other half were trailer/redneck.
For the jury- Say these lines with the appropriate accent. Does it fly?
"Yo get yo stuffs off my desk".
"Ya'll better get your stuffs outta the truck".
And it's not drink. It's drank.
Lighten up Francis. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
It is just stuff. If you want to bastardize the English language go right ahead, but don't claim, wrongly as is your habit, that it's correct or in general usage.
The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH gives 476 examples of stuffs. Other than a few foodstuffs, all other examples are verbs.
And as mentioned above, it's Konglish. Koreans have problems with plurals and often pluralize words that are already plural such as staffs for staff members. You've got a lot of stuff to learn. |
Dude, its called slang and casual speaking. Of course its incorrect and its not in general usage.
No, its not Konglish. It's like a blend of hillbilly and ebonics. I'm sorry I should have put a 'z' instead of an 's' to make it proper. 'Stuffz'.
Sometimes you speak the King's English. Sometimes you talk corner or trailer. Dave's is a place where you can talk both.
Lighten up Francis and go have some grape drank. |
It's Konglish. It's not slang.
Besides, what do you know about how hillbillies and black people speak? What you've seen at the movies?
Just stop talking out of your hat and admit your error. Instead of lightening up with a kid's drink, why not man up--there's your slang. |
I've never heard Koreans use it. Can't say I'd call it Konglish.
Foodstuff
Craftstuff
Homestuff
Motorstuff
Sure, those last ones are incorrect, but I could see them being names of business and the like - and people understanding them. You seem to simply want to call out SR on this... and ignore that others are not bothered by it.
Me thinks this has more to do with your feelings about a poster than what is posted. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
It is just stuff. If you want to bastardize the English language go right ahead, but don't claim, wrongly as is your habit, that it's correct or in general usage.
The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH gives 476 examples of stuffs. Other than a few foodstuffs, all other examples are verbs.
And as mentioned above, it's Konglish. Koreans have problems with plurals and often pluralize words that are already plural such as staffs for staff members. You've got a lot of stuff to learn. |
Dude, its called slang and casual speaking. Of course its incorrect and its not in general usage.
No, its not Konglish. It's like a blend of hillbilly and ebonics. I'm sorry I should have put a 'z' instead of an 's' to make it proper. 'Stuffz'.
Sometimes you speak the King's English. Sometimes you talk corner or trailer. Dave's is a place where you can talk both.
Lighten up Francis and go have some grape drank. |
It's Konglish. It's not slang.
Besides, what do you know about how hillbillies and black people speak? What you've seen at the movies?
Just stop talking out of your hat and admit your error. Instead of lightening up with a kid's drink, why not man up--there's your slang. |
I've never heard Koreans use it. Can't say I'd call it Konglish.
Foodstuff
Craftstuff
Homestuff
Motorstuff
Sure, those last ones are incorrect, but I could see them being names of business and the like - and people understanding them. You seem to simply want to call out SR on this... and ignore that others are not bothered by it.
Me thinks this has more to do with your feelings about a poster than what is posted. |
That's partially correct. But it's also that his explanations are inane and are the kind of half-baked information too many foreign "teachers" in Korea foist upon unsuspecting students.
And unless he's black, the peoples thing is just posing. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| I see atwood has a hard-on for SR. It's cute seeing him picking a fight over a word. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| Lets drop it, guys. we already lost one thread today to personal scraps (of which I was a contributor). |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| I see atwood has a hard-on for SR. It's cute seeing him picking a fight over a word. |
Optik sees--that's cute. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
It is just stuff. If you want to bastardize the English language go right ahead, but don't claim, wrongly as is your habit, that it's correct or in general usage.
The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH gives 476 examples of stuffs. Other than a few foodstuffs, all other examples are verbs.
And as mentioned above, it's Konglish. Koreans have problems with plurals and often pluralize words that are already plural such as staffs for staff members. You've got a lot of stuff to learn. |
Dude, its called slang and casual speaking. Of course its incorrect and its not in general usage.
No, its not Konglish. It's like a blend of hillbilly and ebonics. I'm sorry I should have put a 'z' instead of an 's' to make it proper. 'Stuffz'.
Sometimes you speak the King's English. Sometimes you talk corner or trailer. Dave's is a place where you can talk both.
Lighten up Francis and go have some grape drank. |
It's Konglish. It's not slang.
Besides, what do you know about how hillbillies and black people speak? What you've seen at the movies?
Just stop talking out of your hat and admit your error. Instead of lightening up with a kid's drink, why not man up--there's your slang. |
I've never heard Koreans use it. Can't say I'd call it Konglish.
Foodstuff
Craftstuff
Homestuff
Motorstuff
Sure, those last ones are incorrect, but I could see them being names of business and the like - and people understanding them. You seem to simply want to call out SR on this... and ignore that others are not bothered by it.
Me thinks this has more to do with your feelings about a poster than what is posted. |
That's partially correct. But it's also that his explanations are inane and are the kind of half-baked information too many foreign "teachers" in Korea foist upon unsuspecting students.
And unless he's black, the peoples thing is just posing. |
Pick your battles atwood. This rite here...not the best hound to kick...
Lighten up Francis. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
It is just stuff. If you want to bastardize the English language go right ahead, but don't claim, wrongly as is your habit, that it's correct or in general usage.
The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH gives 476 examples of stuffs. Other than a few foodstuffs, all other examples are verbs.
And as mentioned above, it's Konglish. Koreans have problems with plurals and often pluralize words that are already plural such as staffs for staff members. You've got a lot of stuff to learn. |
Dude, its called slang and casual speaking. Of course its incorrect and its not in general usage.
No, its not Konglish. It's like a blend of hillbilly and ebonics. I'm sorry I should have put a 'z' instead of an 's' to make it proper. 'Stuffz'.
Sometimes you speak the King's English. Sometimes you talk corner or trailer. Dave's is a place where you can talk both.
Lighten up Francis and go have some grape drank. |
It's Konglish. It's not slang.
Besides, what do you know about how hillbillies and black people speak? What you've seen at the movies?
Just stop talking out of your hat and admit your error. Instead of lightening up with a kid's drink, why not man up--there's your slang. |
I've never heard Koreans use it. Can't say I'd call it Konglish.
Foodstuff
Craftstuff
Homestuff
Motorstuff
Sure, those last ones are incorrect, but I could see them being names of business and the like - and people understanding them. You seem to simply want to call out SR on this... and ignore that others are not bothered by it.
Me thinks this has more to do with your feelings about a poster than what is posted. |
That's partially correct. But it's also that his explanations are inane and are the kind of half-baked information too many foreign "teachers" in Korea foist upon unsuspecting students.
And unless he's black, the peoples thing is just posing. |
Pick your battles atwood. This rite here...not the best hound to kick...
Lighten up Francis. |
Ignorance in any shape or form is worth battling. Also pretense. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Lets drop it, guys. we already lost one thread today to personal scraps (of which I was a contributor). |
What?! I missed all the fun.  |
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