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mindmetoo
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saw6436
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| I wonder how much English has made it into the Korean language. |
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Bigfeet
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Two: taekwondo and kimchi |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| saw6436 wrote: |
| I wonder how much English has made it into the Korean language. |
According to my Korean textbook (integrated Korean Univ. of Hawaii Press), 5 percent of the words in the Korean language are "loanwords" the great majority of which are from English.
Telebision, intahnet, etc. There are tons of such words. |
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cdninkorea
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| aka Dave wrote: |
| saw6436 wrote: |
| I wonder how much English has made it into the Korean language. |
According to my Korean textbook (integrated Korean Univ. of Hawaii Press), 5 percent of the words in the Korean language are "loanwords" the great majority of which are from English.
Telebision, intahnet, etc. There are tons of such words. |
Only five percent? I remember reading that seventy percent of Korean words are of Chinese origin, as reflected in the Chinese characters (hanja). Or do they not count? |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:33 am Post subject: |
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The Chinese words (called Sino-Korean by my textbooks) are placed in a different category, as they're much older (like the numbers past 100).
Not sure about them, I'm sure there are a ton. Btw, a lot of the English loanwords (like reh-di-o) were actually introduced through the Japanese during the occupation. |
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amilin90
Joined: 08 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: |
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'juche' and 'chaebul'
(주체, 재벌) are two that made it to some dictionary (oxford?) according to what my teacher told me a few weeks back.
Juche (sasang) is the official state ideology of NKorea
Chaebul is.. well, I don't know. Plutocrat is the closest word I can think of.
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Lekker
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Gook. "Waygook, Hangook..." Wait, that's chinese. |
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