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ratslash
Joined: 08 May 2003
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:06 am Post subject: sucking teeth...... |
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what's this obessions with korean people (99% male) and sucking their teeth? very annoying. tooth pick anyone? or does the teeth sucking have other meanings? |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:08 am Post subject: |
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I always thought it was just a taxi driver thing. |
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TheMrCul
Joined: 09 May 2003 Location: Korea, finally...
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 2:44 am Post subject: sucking teeth |
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No, they do it when they are thinking, or when a problem is difficult. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 2:52 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, the sucking sound.... Always thought there is a large dose of annoyance mixed into the expresion. Like "F***, what do I do" or "F*** a foreigner interfering in my pure race life" |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 8:59 am Post subject: |
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yeah, what is that? latter of weatherman's guesses i figure. yesterday in a tight doorway after the guy sees me approaching. all the better to chaw you with, said the big bad wolf. |
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posco's trumpet
Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Beneath the Underdog
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:58 am Post subject: look and listen more closely |
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Blue Flower
Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Location: The realisation that I only have to endure two more weeks in this filthy, perverted, nasty place!
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:42 am Post subject: |
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It is one the grossest things in Korea, including the spitting. It grots me intensely when some old man sits down in the train, and starts doin it. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:52 am Post subject: |
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It grots me intensely |
That's a brilliant verb, haven't heard that for long time! |
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ratslash
Joined: 08 May 2003
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, it grots me entirely too!
i was thinking something, perhaps, more sinister than the explanations given so far. for example, i remember reading somewhere that someone (probably derreck!) whenever he walked past korean people (of course, always men) they made an 'sssssssss' noise. apparently this is the opening to an insult towards foreigners in korean.
is the sucking teeth also something along these lines coz i swear they only start doing it whenever i walk past or sit near them on a subway! |
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