Korean Job Discussion Forums

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

My hobbies are sleep and eating the rice. And you?

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

NO...

"What is your hobby?" is the mandatory formulation in this country.
(As Highlander said: There can be only ONE!)

And 'sleep' is not a hobby, 'sleeping' is. Are you Korean?

Or is this just another example of Dave's posters who demonstrate the same mastery of English grammar as my students?

Confused

I feel punchy today.

Walking is my hobby. I better go do some of it. Later.

mysteriousdeltarays · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:33 am Post subject:

Sleep is correct, nothing wrong with that, in terms of grammar. I'll spare you the reason why.

Hobby... uh well I thought I'd get into tats. Any advice? I've given up on the razor blade idea because I found a long disused exacto knife blade in one of my drawers. A little rusty but nothing a good soak in Coca-Cola won't remove. Do you think you could draw a good assault rifle? It would have to be pretty big.

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

Does the Coca Cola really remove the rust? So big surprise! Now I start the business venture to remove the rust from the chopstick from the restaurant, thank you the Coke! And thank you the America for the Coke! So happy~

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

My hobby is listen to music. Sometimes I also like drawing the picture. And you?

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

My hobbies are take photos, eat food, ride bike, read books, go shop, and surf internet.

Yeah, though, "sleep" is a hobby in the same way you'd say, "photography," or "soccer"...

Treefarmer · Joined: 29 May 2007

make music

post on the internet

drink

that's about it

i am gonna take up a martial art

PimpofKorea · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:58 am Post subject:

I like play the starcraft, drinking the soju, smoking the thin cigarettes...and you?

Treefarmer · Joined: 29 May 2007

i like the computer games

Masta_Don · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul

I don't know.

mysteriousdeltarays · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:29 am Post subject:

My hobby is wine, women and song. Not drinking wine, womanizing, and singing.

Maybe the guy is interested in the Big Sleep (and I don't mean the

movie.)

I know what he meant. Technically, strictly speaking it is fine. One could say "My hobby is golf." as compared to golfing. Who cares?

I think most of us know gerunds, and the present continuous. Do you want a reference for sentences like "I came, I saw, I conquered."

Actually I would have expected a more lively response from the home made tattoo types.

ardis · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

Photography, singing, writing poetry, reading, painting/charcoal works, and analyzing films. Basically, anything in the arts.

bosintang · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject:

my hobby is game~~ is very fonny and exciting! : )) ~~teacher, u no starcraft? ~ is very fun! ~~ I like very much~but mother say play manny ~~ make inharmonious endeavor : (( ~ but I love my parents very much ~~Bye! ~~