Korean Job Discussion Forums

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

How about a thread where we contribute some words and expressions that are rarely used but you like? You can explain why you like them if you wish.

I'll start with "indubitably" ... nobody ever says it, except Sherlock Holmes and the odd character in humor. A great word. Don't use it, ever.

"The jig is up." A great old expression. Never to be used. Only heard and enjoyed.

"A capital idea"... I love this one too. I have used it twice in the past 15 years.

trinity24651 · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

Ubiquitous - everywhere at the same time
Avuncular - for some reason, our cable system uses this word to describe Larry King!

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I like the expression 'up to sauce'. Yeah.. his performance this year reaalllly wasn't up to sauce..

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Personally, I get great pleasure in saying 'plethora'.

mithridates · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject:

Anything Anglo-saxon and old.

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject:

yes, let's be more vivacious Exclamation

seoulsista · Joined: 31 Aug 2005

My mothers a fan of the saying "Sh!t or get off the pot." It means hurry up and make a decision.

Trumpcard · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

my current favourite one used to great effect by any member of The Soranos is "get the f*ck outta here!". I like "brilliant" but people almost never use it in conversation.

europe2seoul · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul, Korea

lawyertood · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

groovy

canuckistan · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:

"A gin-soaked, syphilitic rake"....heard that one this evening...

Conjures up a certain image doesn't it Very Happy

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Ubiquitous is one of those words you learn in first year university.

Parsimonious is a word I use a lot that I don't hear in other people's regular conversation.

Verbose is a word I learned playing Infocom text adventure games. You typed in "verbose" to get full descriptions.

Lots of big words I also picked up playing D&D back in the early '80s, before it became a Mattel product or whatever.

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

High-Falutin'

I like this one too. Sounds like something Foghorn Leghorn might say.

Discombobulated....? Sounds like the sound made by balls bouncing in that thing they use for lotteries.

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

I just had a student in my class with the family name "In", and the first part of his given name was "Ui", or "We". I thought about explaining "ennui" to him, but I didn't think he'd be too happy to have a name with that kind of English meaning. ㅋㅋ