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[Newbie]

The world must ban all English hip hop from the penninsula.

Don't get me wrong, I like using terms like "my bad" "for real!" etc, but I'm getting so sick of Korean teenagers trying to speak "ghetto" and just sounding stupid... "ahhh yo, wassosay up yo, whaa yo". Until they can figure out normal English, give up hip-hop english. Have you ever heard pop singers "Bi" or 7 try to speak English... painful.

I actually saw this kyopo tool on MTV once trying to teach the crap. Today's lesson "yo, hollar at my shorty while i'm chillin in my crib"

please, please give it up. (but hey, i'm sure a whole bunch of genuine ghetto folk are saying the same thing to me when I use ebonics )

[Yu_Bum_suk]

What's far worse is that they'd think random white strangers would want to be impressed by their hip=hop Konglish abilities.

[billybrobby]

i don't like when koreans stop obseqiously following white americans and start following black americans. it's like, c'mon, do we rule this planet or what? stick with a winner!

[trinity24651]

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[trinity24651]

Well...it is what you said...

[SPINOZA]

Well if I hear any foul youth soil me with this, I shall simply say that they're speaking a socially-inferior form of English....worse than going up to a Korean War veteran and saying "야야, 저기! 이름이 뭐지?"

This is an unpleasant, un-PC fact. Black American English and hip-hop stuff is regarded as subversive and base by even European liberals! That's really saying something.

Thus, "what up homey?" = "Good morning, sir...I trust you're in fine fettle?"

Really, unless they start coming out with b*tch and n*gger, it's quite inoffensive, but any kind of aping of blacks by whites or Asians is absolutely, toe-curlingly embarrassing to observe.

[Newbie]

[tiger fancini]

I'm looking forward to the day when reggae/ragga/dancehall becomes popular here and there's an injection of Jamaican patois into the lingo.

[Young FRANKenstein]

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[billybrobby]

They say history is decided by the winners. Well, proper grammar and pronunciation are decided by the winners too. And for a few hundred years white people have been on a huge winning streak. So it's appalling to see Koreans emulating some loser talk. They've done a pretty good job falling in line behind the white man so far. Even the North Koreans have too. After all, Stalin was white. I hope this doesn't become a trend.


I feel the same way when I hear a Korean speak with a British accent. I mean c'mon, what is this? the 1800s?

[RACETRAITOR]

Funny, offensive, but I see your point.

I have a black friend who tried going to a hip-hop club in Hongdae once and he told me black people weren't really all that welcome in there.

[SirFink]

Judging by some of the Eminem wannabes I see teaching English here, I can only guess where they're getting this crap from.

[Newbie]