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[superacidjax]

Does anyone know any white people in the US or Canada that pretend to act like they are from the ghetto when they're not? Talking like "gangstas" etc.?

Kind of ridiculous wouldn't you think?

I find it just as ridiculous that on this very board there are a significant number of lonely white guys trying to act like they are Koreans. Let me be more specific. It's obnoxious when, in a post, some guy (it's usually always a guy) types Hangul letters or uses the Korean name for something when it isn't needed.

It's one thing when you are trying to help someone on the board and you type the Korean letters in order to help the person recognize the word so they can buy the item in the store. Using Hangul to help "identify" something that isn't usually transliterated into English is very helpful.

But, using Hangul letters simply to "show off" or be a poser Korean is just pathetic. I've read many posts on this board where people would type the Korean letters for subway stops! Why the heck would they do that? It seems like a snot that knows Latin, using Latin terms around people who can't speak latin, just to be "sophisticated."

I can read Korean all day long, but I know that most people on this board can't. This is an English language board. So use English. Type the hangul only when needed to HELP someone. Rather than make Dave's a place that features arrogant snots, perhaps we should make Dave's a friendly place. A place that's accessable, even for the fresh off the boat westerner that doesn't know a word of Korean.

Stop trying to impress us. It doesn't work. You just look pathetic and socially inept. Desperate, even.

And stupid. Like Malibu's Most Wanted -- Korean Style.

[cwemory]

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[Hollywoodaction]

[Richard Krainium]

[cwemory]

[superacidjax]

You guys at least have a sense of humor about it.

Some people are really like that!

[samd]

From your bitter post I'm assuming you can't speak much Korean, and seeing other westerners who can makes you feel insecure.

There can be any number of reasons for posting in Hangeul, none of which make the poster an "arrogant snot".

For example:

- The poster thinks that the romanization of Hangeul/Hangul/Hankul/Hankool sucks. It's actually an impediment to learning the language. Korean words should be written in Korean, and English words in English. Writing in Hangeul avoids any misunderstanding, whereas its often hard to tell which word a poster is using if they use our alphabet.

- The poster likes to practise their Korean as much as possible.

Also, this is a forum about Korea, for people who live in Korea. I would think a forum about Latin would have people posting in Latin too.

If you live and work here and can't read Hangeul, then you are the arrogant snot who should go home. Take four hours and learn it, use the posts here with the odd syllable or two as practise, and start enjoying the country on a different level. If you can read it, then what's the problem?

Your "wannabe gangsta" analogy is flawed too. Are Koreans who post in English in forums based in your country wannabe westerners? Your post is just too ridiculous.

I don't see any poser Koreans, just people trying to learn the langauge of the place they're in, which is a good thing.

[Axl Rose]

[RACETRAITOR]

There's a big difference between learning the language of the country you live in, and...

[superacidjax]

[yingwenlaoshi]

I can see your point in when people use hangeul or romanized hangeul when there is absolutely no need for it, but I don't think anyone wants to be Korean.

[HapKi]

If you were talking about writing in French, I'd support you all the way.

Korean, no.

[Masta_Don]

What should I put instead of 석소 or 내숭?

[Satori]

[dogshed]

I think the romanization is confusing.

I'm White and lived in a Black neighborhood for six years.

I see no connection.