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[sojusucks]

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2920580

[Louis VI]

[caniff]

He didn't mention the Mongolian "spot", I hope.

[tomato]

On Saturday, September 11, a group was carrying signs outside the Crown Building of Kyung Hee University and questioning people who was going into the building.
Here is a translation of the flier which they were passing out:

[ddeubel]

LOL, you made my morning!

Idiots everywhere - always the same message, "The Barbarians are at the Gates". (good poem/book by the way).

thanks for taking the time to translate and post. Appreciated.

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

[Mosley]

Tomato has given us a great example of the ongoing, widespread xenophobia/racism that exists in Korea today.

I'm a bit puzzled by the "Miriam Ferguson" bit, though.

[Konglishman]

[Steelrails]

[Hotwire]

Here is a 'translation' of the flier which they were passing out:

[tomato]

Hello, Mosley!

The Miriam Ferguson Society is dedicated to fighting second language literacy among English-speaking foreigners in Korea.
They named themselves after the first woman governor of Texas, who vetoed a bill requiring foreign language class in high school.
She is alleged to have held up a King James Bible and said something like "If the English language was good enough for Jesus and the Disciples, it is good enough for the children of Texas."
Although this quote is not authenticated, it establishes Miriam Ferguson as a figurehead for the cause of second language illiteracy among speakers of English.

Here is a summary of one of their meetings.
The organization has a solid structure for maintaining loyalty from its members. The leaders have drafted a list of Ten Commandments, a list of adages, and written an anthem.
On the lighter side, they have coined after-dinner jokes and riddles making fun of wegukin's.

Their programs have included an award ceremony for its most diligent members, an award ceremony for wegukin's who have done the most to reinforce stereotypes, a forum on how the English-speaking people came to be genetically inferior, and a forum on the causes of tabloid rumors of Korean-proficient wegukin's. a flier for recruiting new members, a coloring book for training their children to become good Fergusonians, and a handbook instructing wegukin's in the art of docility.

The projects operated by the Society are far-reaching. They operate a mental hospital to treat wegukin's who have delusions of second language educability. They recently launched a genetic program in which they will create wegukin's with just the right hair color and eye color, raise those wegukin's in an isolated Korean language-free environment, and present them to public schools and English schools when the time comes.

There are also ongoing projects in which the Society is engaged. They have drafted a petition to the General Assembly to confine wegukin's in each major city to a Korean language-free zone. They have also tried to persuade the Assembly to make it legal to capture wegukin's and sell them as pets. They have invented an electronic device which detects when its wearer is reading, speaking, or otherwise thinking in a second language. They have asked the Assembly to have every wegukin fit with this device and fined for the time that he or she is in violation.

There has been some question, however, over whether or not the Society members really want what they are pushing for. One group of members took a vacation trip to English Book Land, which is inhabited by the vapid and sterile characters created by the authors of English textbooks. Instead of the blissful experience which they anticipated, the Society members suffered a rude shock.

I hope that they keep taking such trips until their numbers dwindle down to zero.

Hello, Konglishman!
Hello, Steelrails!

I swear to you that all of this is true or my name is not Pierre Giuseppi von Wienerschnitzel the Fourth.

[Underwaterbob]

Ahh, Tomato's intermittently perpetual language rant. Brings a tear to my eye.

[tomato]

Does a participant in this event have to have fluent conversational ability?
Or does he or she only have to have an immaculately prepared speech?
If it's the former, I don't think I can do it next year.
If it's the latter, I think I can do it.

[littlelisa]

This is only a guess, since it's the first time I hear of this. You probably only need an immaculately prepared speech. However, I'd wager that accent is probably very important for this one. You'd need really really good pronunciation.

[Quack Addict]

[Mosley]

Stoolrails: Baiting another poster with "bigoted" & "prejudiced" violates Dave's TOS & you have been duly reported to the relevant powers that be. I'm surprised that someone w/your erudition and superb education(was it Ivy League? Port Charles U? In any event, all that time & money spent to get you a degree that allows you to have the digits of Korean kids placed in a certain opening in your anatomy?)wouldn't have been aware of that.

In any event, readers will note the irony of you throwing out labels like those at ME, when I am the one fighting against racism.

Now, to the topic. Stool claims his superb education gave him a great insight into Miriam Ferguson. Really? Took a unit on the old gal? A course? Hell, did you major in Miriam Ferguson? No, phoney, you did what I did(and as an autodidact, I've forgotten more US history than you'll ever know): you googled the name. And I'm glad I did. BTW, scholar, it wasn't "Tomato's" article. He didn't write it. He provided it, and by the links he provided, it seems Tomato(who is a long-timer & by no means even close to being the greatest loon on these forums)needs a few weeks in Thailand or wherever to get his thing about the M. Ferguson "Society" out of his system.

A tad off topic but...it seems this Ferguson character fit the profile of the typical early 20th C., N. Amer. leftist-"progressive" politico. That is, if her statement about English is historically accurate(and Tomato rightly points out the doubts about her actually stating what is alleged)then she ranks up there w/Canadian socialist icons Woodsworth & Douglas, who exhibited signs of racism & "survival of the fittest" theories that would've caused some National Socialists to blush.