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Smee
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 Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: Nine-year-old girl likes Jon Huer. |
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Christ.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2009/04/137_44035.html
Well, this could be one of two things:
(1) either another prank, this time somebody pretending to be a nine-year-old girl who likes Jon Huer, or
(2) a nine-year-old girl who likes Jon Huer.
Either way, it's not good. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject: Re: Nine-year-old girl likes Jon Huer. |
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OMFG, someone cache that article somewhere before some reporter who's not retarded gets the KT to ax it. That is bloody unbelievable.
...a nine-year-old using ' typically boring matters'. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Ha! These Mickey-Mouse newspapers will print anything! Even obvious pranks!
They really need a clearing out and get some serious editing staff in. But I guess the budget must be tiny..... |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| Hahahaha. Cmon, now. Whoever keeps [mod edit] with the non-native speakers needs to stop. It's getting downright mean taking advantage of their inability to tell a real nine year old from a guy in his 20's/30's who gets off on his fake editorials being published. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| Nice try.. there's no way a 9 year old could've written that. It reads like an adult trying - but failing miserably - to pretend to be a young person. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
| Hahahaha. Cmon, now. Whoever keeps fucking with the non-native speakers needs to stop. |
I concur. As a reformed serial prankster of our two beloved English dailies myself (back in the pre-Internet days, when all the cool kids were doing it) I feel I must weigh in on this. The skillful prankster will always maintain at least the veneer of plausibility. Oh, and that kid's name & photo? C'mon, we want silly, not creepy in our pranks. |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:46 am Post subject: |
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I feel people were ideologically raped by the times...  |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Well, you know why I call it the Korean Soju Times. You might as well be drink and send in letters to the editor or read them. It will look better that way..... I am not much of a drinker, so I might as well avoid the rag. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| Nice try.. there's no way a 9 year old could've written that. It reads like an adult trying - but failing miserably - to pretend to be a young person. |
I wonder if they were trying to present what a foreigner might believe was a nine-year-old or a KT editor. If the latter, they proved that perhaps there's no limit. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:24 am Post subject: |
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I think Huer is an excellent writer. He always makes his point very clear, and keeps it as interesting as possible. He makes typically boring matters sound exciting and readable. I love his articles!
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This gives it away...
no way a 9 year old girl wrote that...
I think Jon wrote it......
FUNNY thing is - if you "google" the 9-year old girls email address - (eparker89@gmail.com)
you find that a person called eparker89 (avatar name) also uses gmail ([email protected]) at this site - http://www.afterdawn.com/search/search_results.cfm?cx=007976064430744583596%3Aiixdheoudzk&cof=FORID%3A11&q=eparker89#1191 where although the "89" in the name may suggest the person was born in 1989 - the person is obviously a fully-grown-developed-adult - because of the technical stuff they are discussing
Last edited by Yesterday on Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:31 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Bibbitybop
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Location: Seoul
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3MB
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| KT has hit rock bottom...and gone subterranean...like a bunker buster. I actually at one time preferred it to the KH...well both are trash but I cant find the IHT anywhere anymore... |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:57 am Post subject: Re: Nine-year-old girl likes Jon Huer. |
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anyone with a single brain cell and native English skills spots that as a trick article from the get go.
the snide rips inside are so obvious (and amusing)
but you know what.. I took less issue with that Huer article than I did with most of the crap he writes.
English is definitely FAR more egalitarian and you DO speak to most people around you, (no matter how "old" they are in pretty much the same way)
BUT even if korean is completelyd different (which it is) why would that concept be so difficult for a learner to grasp? |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:31 am Post subject: |
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It is not likely the article was written by Jon himself.
I guess the person who wrote this just wanted to be cynical and sarcastic, what he really wanted to say is: Jon, your article were hypocritical and ridiculous , Korean Times, please stop posting his articles.
Then he must have laughed his ass off by knowing that KT didnt get his sarcasm at all, instead they seriously made his article published~!!!
What a stupid media...do people actually read KT? ( I dont and I wont let such an idiot media f*** my brain) |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| 3MB wrote: |
| KT has hit rock bottom...and gone subterranean...like a bunker buster. I actually at one time preferred it to the KH...well both are trash but I cant find the IHT anywhere anymore... |
loved the iht, personally.
unfortunately, it's been folded up and incorporated into the nyt "global" edition which is a very very POOR substitute. |
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