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[cassimira]

I'm about to go home for a month for a nice vacation, and today my bosses daughter sent me this as a text message:

올만이야!!!!!


Is this some variation of "have a good time?" haha, google languages translates it as "ollman two."

The closest I can find in my phone dictionary is "be an honest person." geez, I hope they aren't worried about our honesty!

[samd]

[Slowmotion]

Some of you guys could benefit a lot from reading this:

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Internet_and_text_messaging

[timolein23]

what does the pattern ~나 마나 ㅡmean?

its from the 중급 topik test. The example is attached to 저렴하다 but it is one of the decoy wrong answers.

~ 저렴하나 마나

I've never seen it before and can't find it in any of my text books.

[samd]

[You]

I was at a convenient store with my boyfriend (of about a month) and the shopkeeper (woman) asked if I was his 친구 (I know this means friend) but he responded by saying something that sounded like 일친구 ~~ What does 일친구 mean?

[Slowmotion]

You sure it wasn' 여친구?

[You]

Pretty sure

I asked a student of mine what it meant and they said it could have meant day friend~

[timolein23]

[highstreet]

[highstreet]

Can anyone here recommend a good, advanced Korean Vocab book?

My grammar is pretty good but the vocab is killing me.

Its hard to find a decent Korean Vocab book, most of them are all beginner or survival vocab which I already know

[Passions]

Can anyone explain what the difference is below?

소개해줬던 여자
소개해준 여자

They both seem to me, "The girl you introduced..."

But is there a difference?

[out of context]

Ugh. Well, it's a bit like the difference between the simple past and present perfect in English. -었던 focuses more on the time when the action took place, while -은 focuses more on the completion of the act without concern for when it happened. So you can see 소개해줬던 여자 as something like "the woman I introduced you to that one time" and 소개해준 여자 as something like "the woman I introduced you to before." Not a major difference, granted, but it can make a difference in meaning.

[samd]

+1 on the ugh.

The differences between -던 and 었/았/였던 are even more confusing.

For an interesting discussion on the topic, check out the comments on this blog post:

http://koreanlanguagenotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/do-we-really-need-to-use.html

[Privateer]

You probably need to have the Google toolbar installed for this but I just realised that, when you mouseover an English word, Google will automatically come up with a list of Korean equivalents. No more online dictionaries for me!

I know, I'm sure thousands of people noticed this months or even years before me, but there must be a few people out there this could help...Right?