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hairy sue
Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven
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| CasperTheFriendlyGhost wrote: |
There used to be a Korean teacher at my school, excellent English, assertative, confident.
Then she'd get on the phone with her boyfriend and put on this pouty, baby-talking act.
I couldn't stand it. |
I still lived with my parents when I was 22 and going to college. Sometimes I'd come home absolutely exhausted and hit the sack, and then the phone would ring.....And I could hear my mom talking to her friends and her voice was so irritating, because it wasn't her normal voice...drove me nuts! I had to get out of there! |
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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
Location: pc room
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:02 am Post subject: Re: baby talking Korean actress |
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| hairy sue wrote: |
| In general the visual attraction of East Asian women is they are adults that look like girls. |
The same could be said for the men it seems. Harisu just took it one step further  And did a great job of it. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: baby talking Korean actress |
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| What's her name? She's on these comedy shows a lotm and has a commercial for laptops in which she wears a hanbok. Is that baby voice an attraction to Korean viewers? She's beautiful but I can't stand it when she speaks. |
Then maybe she's not beautiful? In general the visual attraction of East Asian women is they are adults that look like girls. Of course that fantasy falls apart once you actually get to know them and realize they're just women who look like girls.
The Koreans know that. And the baby voice is the Koreans laughing at themselves. It's a joke. Sure she's on a comedy show and now she's playing up the baby voice thing - makes sense. |
hahaha...Some westerners are so strange, thinking that Korean adults all look like teens or something. NO, THEY DON'T!!! |
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Saram
Joined: 11 Mar 2007
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| Yeah, I think I know the show you're talking about. It has half-celebrities sitting in a row, and thy describe the picture behind her in "English"/Korean? If that's the case, she's kind of cute, and based on her accent I'd say she speaks English fairly well. I don't think she's one of the one's pictured (or at least not the one talked about by the OP). |
Yes, thats the show! I didn't know they were has beens or B-Listers. I still don't know Korean celebrities too well, even after 3 years. But anyways, yeah, she is cute. I was told though that she's 13 years old... |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: baby talking Korean actress |
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| hairy sue wrote: |
| Snowmeow wrote: |
| What's her name? She's on these comedy shows a lotm and has a commercial for laptops in which she wears a hanbok. Is that baby voice an attraction to Korean viewers? She's beautiful but I can't stand it when she speaks. |
Then maybe she's not beautiful? In general the visual attraction of East Asian women is they are adults that look like girls. Of course that fantasy falls apart once you actually get to know them and realize they're just women who look like girls.
The Koreans know that. And the baby voice is the Koreans laughing at themselves. It's a joke. Sure she's on a comedy show and now she's playing up the baby voice thing - makes sense. |
And what are you trying to insinuate by this? |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Saram wrote: |
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| Yeah, I think I know the show you're talking about. It has half-celebrities sitting in a row, and thy describe the picture behind her in "English"/Korean? If that's the case, she's kind of cute, and based on her accent I'd say she speaks English fairly well. I don't think she's one of the one's pictured (or at least not the one talked about by the OP). |
Yes, thats the show! I didn't know they were has beens or B-Listers. I still don't know Korean celebrities too well, even after 3 years. But anyways, yeah, she is cute. I was told though that she's 13 years old... |
really?  my bad. |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| The Koreans know that. And the baby voice is the Koreans laughing at themselves. It's a joke. Sure she's on a comedy show and now she's playing up the baby voice thing - makes sense. |
No it's not, the women do it to make the men fell superior and macho. The women try to be cute, there is a Korea word for it (aeygee or something like that.) It's really sickening, when I tell Korean women foreigners hate it they are pretty shocked. The funny thing is they have this cute voice to use around the men but just squeel and boom their voices around people they know. How cute are they when they are chowing down like a pack of wild dogs? |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| hairy sue wrote: |
| The Koreans know that. And the baby voice is the Koreans laughing at themselves. It's a joke. Sure she's on a comedy show and now she's playing up the baby voice thing - makes sense. |
No it's not, the women do it to make the men fell superior and macho. The women try to be cute, there is a Korea word for it (aeygee or something like that.) It's really sickening, when I tell Korean women foreigners hate it they are pretty shocked. The funny thing is they have this cute voice to use around the men but just squeel and boom their voices around people they know. How cute are they when they are chowing down like a pack of wild dogs? |
It's 애교. People are taken aback when I tell them the word "whining" and they look it up in the English-Korean dictionary. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
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| hairy sue wrote: |
| The Koreans know that. And the baby voice is the Koreans laughing at themselves. It's a joke. Sure she's on a comedy show and now she's playing up the baby voice thing - makes sense. |
No it's not, the women do it to make the men fell superior and macho. The women try to be cute, there is a Korea word for it (aeygee or something like that.) It's really sickening, when I tell Korean women foreigners hate it they are pretty shocked. The funny thing is they have this cute voice to use around the men but just squeel and boom their voices around people they know. How cute are they when they are chowing down like a pack of wild dogs? |
It's 애교. People are taken aback when I tell them the word "whining" and they look it up in the English-Korean dictionary. |
Neat stuff. Thanks for posting that word. My students were trying to explain why they weren't attractive enough to guys, and the english equivalent of "winsomeness" is what they were lacking. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| People are taken aback when I tell them the word "whining" and they look it up in the English-Korean dictionary. |
In my introduction classes, I have my students fill out introduction cards with various info. One section lists favourite and least favourite sounds, so I get to teach them the word "whining" on the first day and tell them I hate it. Throughout the term, I'll hear various students chide others with variations of "Oh, Heesuk, stop whining!"  |
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