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[NYC_Gal]

@Ketchup

Here's an idea. You should say "I'm from Sweden. I speak only Swedish but want to use Korean." All in Korean of course.

Or any other country for that matter. I'd avoid German, Spanish, or French unless you're really fluent, because I've found that quite a few Koreans know some of those languages.

I hope that helps!

[Daniel_D]

Nice troll OP

[tomato]

Thanks for the suggestion, NYC.
I've had overseas experience in Spanish.
I've thought about pretending that I'm from Venezuela, that I am loyal to the President of Venezuela, who hates Americans, and that I hate Americans also.
Then I would stand up, look the person straight in the face, and ask, "Did you think I was an American?"

I've thought about doing that, but it involves looking at a Fergusonian straight in the face, and I can't stand to look at them.

[tomato]

Hello, NYC_Gal, Underwaterbob, and Nester Noodlemon!

I asked you 24 hours ago why a foreigner who speaks Korean badly should be Anglophoned, but you never answered.
The best I can do, then, is to make a few guesses at what you're driving at and see if any of those guesses are correct.
Please read the following hypotheses and check which one is correct:

ㅁ 1. A foreigner who speaks Korean badly is an underachiever.
Therefore, he deserves the humiliation of being Anglophoned.

ㅁ 2. A foreigner who speaks Korean badly is hopeless.
Therefore, he does not merit the time and effort of anyone else trying to help him learn.

ㅁ 3. A foreigner who speaks Korean badly is a nincompoop.
Therefore, his opinion doesn't matter.

ㅁ 4. All of the above.

ㅁ 4. Other. (Please specify.)______________________________________

[NYC_Gal]

[NYC_Gal]

[tomato]

"Welcome to the first meeting of the Wegukin Auxiliary of the Miriam Ferguson Society. I trust that you all read the sign at the door. This is a very important meeting, so it is very important that there will be no interruptions. So you are all asked to turn off your cell phones and leave them in the basket on the table by the door. If you forgot to do so, please do so now."

The organizer continued, "Most of you have received my invitation, or perhaps you were brought here by someone who has. We are all gathered here to promote Koreans speaking English to wegukin's. And what is the reason?"
The words thundered throughout the room. "CULTURAL INEQUALITY!"

The organizer spoke again. "And can anyone explain what is meant by cultural inequality?"

He called on one member who was raising his hand. "We're better than they are. We speak a language which is spoken by people all over the world. They don't. So they have a responsibility to learn our language but we don't have a . . ."

"You're crazy!" Another member jumped up. "They're better than we are. They are intelligent and diligent enough to learn a second language and we're not!"

The first member tried to respond, but a third member also spoke up. "Why should we learn a second language! We can travel anywhere in the world and people will be glad to accommodate us!"

A fourth member spoke up. "Yeah, look how some of our employers accommodate us! They stick us in the broom closet!"

A fifth member yelled, "Maybe so, but it's their country and their culture and we should respect their country and their culture whether we like everything they do or not!"

Someone else shouted, "Yes, I know, 'we must respect the culture that we're in.' What ever happened to 'two wrongs don't make a right'?"
The moderator clasped his hands. "Now, now, let's not get carried away!"

Two or three more people spoke up, but they were drowned out by two or three more. Soon, nearly everyone in the room had chosen one side or the other and was angrily confronting someone else.

Soon after that, the room became overtaken with round houses and upper cuts. Everyone was busy either delivering punches or dodging punches, so no one noticed the organizer, who was swiftly and silently grabbing the basket of cell phones and heading out of the room. As he locked the door from the outside, he chuckled to himself. "Tomato, you are a genius!"

[noraebang]

[tomato]

For some of those questions, I plead guilty.
For some of them, I plead not guilty.

[tomato]

Hello, Noraebang, Captain Corea, and air76!

A long time ago, I asked you to explain why it is wrong for me to spend time in other ways besides learning Korean, but you never answered.
The best I can do, then, is to make a few guesses at what you're driving at and see if any of those guesses are correct.
Please read the following hypotheses and check which one is correct:

ㅁ 1. A foreigner who pursues other interests besides studying Korean could not be a highly motivated student.
Therefore, he deserves the humiliation of being Anglophoned.

ㅁ 2. A foreigner who pursues other interests besides studying Korean could not achieve very much in learning Korean.
Therefore, he deserves the humiliation of being Anglophoned.

ㅁ 3. Both of the above.

ㅁ 4. Other. (Please specify.)______________________________________

I can name several famous people who were amateur musicians: Missionary doctor Albert Schweitzer was an organist and author of an excellent two-volume work on Johann Sebastian Bach.
Albert Einstein was an excellent violinist.
Poet James Whitcomb Riley owned a violin and was able to play every instrument in the orchestra.
Benjamin Franklin composed music.
Charlie Chaplin composed music.
John Holt, author of the best-selling books How Children Learn and How Children Fail, played the cello.
Advertising executive David Ogilvy played the double bass.
The title player of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood has a college degree in music composition and composed all of the music for his own program.
Woody Allen is a jazz clarinettist.
I can name three American Presidents who were musicians:
Thomas Jefferson played the violin, Harry Truman played the piano, and Bill Clinton plays the saxophone.

I can also name a few famous musicians who had other interests: Composer Giuseppe Verdi had an apple orchard.
Composer Domenico Alberti was Venetian ambassador to Spain. Composer Richard Wagner was a prolific writer of philosophical treatises. Composer Albert Roussel was an officer in the French navy.
Composer Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakoff was an officer in the Russian navy.
Composer Charles Ives was an insurance salesman.

If none of these people devoted every waking minute to pursuing a single interest, why do I have to?

[morrisonhotel]

[noraebang]

[NYC_Gal]

I hardly think that he was serious when he stated that he didn't know what a podcast or blog was. If he WAS serious, he's so far gone that he's a lost cause, so we may as well let him rant about Koreans having the nerve to try and accommodate him.
With that, I bid the lovely people on this thread adieu.

[tomato]

This morning, a man was washing windows on the second floor and dripping water on the sidewalk.
When I came by, a man standing on the sidewalk said, "비 캐플, 오케이?"
I stopped and watched to see if he was telling everyone else to exercise caution.
Sure enough, he wasn't.
Two or three Koreans passed by and he didn't say a word.

There is only one way that I can interpret this:
And that's that Koreans have enough sense not to step in a puddle but wegukin's don't.
But I know I'm dead wrong.
Please explain to me what it does mean.

[World Traveler]