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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| loveless wrote: |
| well, i can fluently speak 4 languages including Korean, Japanese and Chinese and of course my mother tongue, American English. i find it useful here in the Korea speaking the 'hangual' and find it even more useful speaking Chinese Mandarin when traveling around the China.. |
Wow. How long have been in the Asia? |
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engrishprease
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| loveless wrote: |
well, i can fluently speak 4 languages including Korean, Japanese and Chinese and of course my mother tongue, American English. i find it useful here in the Korea speaking the 'hangual' and find it even more useful speaking Chinese Mandarin when traveling around the China...i get respect like crazy.  |
Your mother tongue is English? The Korea? The Hangul? The China? Commas? Apparently, "fluency" can mean very different things to different people. For most folks, it means you can speak/read/write in said language. |
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engrishprease
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
Wow. How long have been in the Asia? |
I see what you did there! |
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brickabrack
Joined: 17 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:01 am Post subject: |
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I didn't read the whole thing.
'do something about it'
The poster that takes pictures and tattles to the colonel...
that is doing something about it?
Ya, Americans are loud. So are Koreans and eastern euros and chinese and italians - fa sho!! |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
OK, I'll dumb it down a bit.
You'll get over yourself more when you get a bit older. You'll stop letting yourself be defined by the actions of others. |
That's a lot of smugness and condescension from a man who just used the amusing but entirely meaness phrase "acclamation process".
The fact that a word sounds a bit like the one you were blushingly groping for is not a green light for you to just throw it into your sentence. Take a page out of your own book and "get over yourself". You may know more than you did when you were younger but you're still probably not very bright in absolute terms. |
Perhaps, Pragic was giving it his own meaning. Regardless of whether "acclamation process" has meaning, I understood his point although I do not think that it necessarily has anything to do with turning 40. All that aside, your own post strikes me as being particularly smug and condescending. |
Ironic, isn't it? |
The deliberate use of "entirely meaness phrase" to describe "acclamation process" was a nice touch. |
Keep it down you guys, I'm trying to ride the subway here...
sheesh .. |
While you are at it, could you ask that ajumma over there not to chew gum so loudly? |
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LDJS
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Location: Earth
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Haji ma li gum! |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| And you should be equally as offended when Korean shop owners speak English to you first. |
Do you really mean that?
I'm glad someone's on my side. |
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nero
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, I also speak decent Korean, and understand even more than I can say. I hardly ever speak English when out unless I'm with foreign friends. My Korean friends know some English, so we learn from each other. If I don't know a word, I whip out my dictionary, as do they.
Go have fun with yourself |
Wow, you went from knowing only basic Korean to being conversationally fluent in less than six months?  You must be a genius in addition to being charming and beautiful. |
And rich, don't forget rich. |
I'm not rich. My family has money, but we hardly own 5 cars and an Olympic pool. I paid my way through school. No loans, no daddy's credit card. I worked a full time job and 2 part time jobs and hardly slept, but I made the Dean's list and got work experience. My family values being independent.
Why not try to learn the language? I'm looking forward to seeing my friend's mom back home and having my first real conversation with her the next time I see her. This, after 15 years of nothing, because she knew no English--only Korean. It'll be nice. Why is studying a bad thing? |
Oh God - you just don't get it, do you?  |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:11 am Post subject: |
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I get it. I'm being purposefully annoying. Do YOU get it?  |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:59 am Post subject: |
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NYC Gal has a pathological need (online persona only) to 'one up' people and needs to have the last word.
This being said, her story is superhero worthy.
If one would bother to regroup her posts here the story (and yes the contradictions) would make for fascinating fiction.
Just off the top of my head...NYC Gal is..
At conversation level in Korean (when 6 months ago she stated she was at basic level)
An expert in martial arts (especially the choke hold) but carries pepper spray or mace just in case.
Cute, attractive, stunning, sexy, super fit...feel free to add more here
Has a British nobleman as a bf who is also sexy, studly, homely, intelligent and workls all over asia.
A expert in teaching methods and activities and also has artwork she designed that is likely Smithsonian worthy.
A genius and clearly superior to all.
Of diverse ethnical background, at last count she had 6 ethinical ancestries, all of which clearly stand out in the way she looks and acts. This also makes her fluent in the culture and history of each of these ancestry lines.
Worked 3 jobs while riding her bike around NY and being a Deans list student.
The list surely goes on....
Oh and she can leap buildings in single bounds, stop Tsunamis with her mind, eradicate world hunger with her words.... |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
NYC Gal has a pathological need (online persona only) to 'one up' people and needs to have the last word.
This being said, her story is superhero worthy.
If one would bother to regroup her posts here the story (and yes the contradictions) would make for fascinating fiction.
Just off the top of my head...NYC Gal is..
At conversation level in Korean (when 6 months ago she stated she was at basic level)
I'm at basic conversation level. A few dozen verbs in 3 tenses, and a growing vocabulary of other parts of speech. Simple conversation, but conversation nonetheless.
An expert in martial arts (especially the choke hold) but carries pepper spray or mace just in case.
I don't carry it. I was joking about creating some out of gochujang.
Cute, attractive, stunning, sexy, super fit...feel free to add more here
Aw thanks 
Has a British nobleman as a bf who is also sexy, studly, homely, intelligent and workls all over asia.
The ex was a nobleman. The fiance is sexy, studly, brilliant, and works all over the globe, but mainly Asia as of the past year.
A expert in teaching methods and activities and also has artwork she designed that is likely Smithsonian worthy.
LOL More like comic-strip worthy! I love cartooning.
A genius and clearly superior to all.
Not at all. I'm terrible at cartwheels.
Of diverse ethnical background, at last count she had 6 ethinical ancestries, all of which clearly stand out in the way she looks and acts. This also makes her fluent in the culture and history of each of these ancestry lines.
5, unless you count Austria-Hungary as 2 countries. We consider it Austria, using today's maps as a guide. My grandparents are proud that I took the time to educate myself about my heritage.
Worked 3 jobs while riding her bike around NY and being a Deans list student.
Yup! And rollerblading. Mind you, two of those jobs were done mainly from home (tutoring, though that sometimes was at their homes, and freelance editing, which was and still is all done via email and FTP).
The list surely goes on....
Oh and she can leap buildings in single bounds, stop Tsunamis with her mind, eradicate world hunger with her words.... |
I'm way too short to leap buildings, as you know. I've only been able to nudge puddles with my mind as of yet, but I'm working on it! |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| I rest my case... |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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lol Homer
I'm not even sure if NYCGal is even from NYC... |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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lol Homer
I'm not even sure if NYCGal is even from NYC... |
Born and raised. Many, if not most, New Yorkers like to argue. It's fun. <<shrugs>> I admit that freely. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| A special breed. |
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