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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| And sorry hear that your best friend is leaving. Are you sure it's Tongseop, not Dongseop. 'cause Tongseop sounds goofy. |
I think he was here before the "great spelling change of 2000" so it would be natural for him to write, Tongseop. |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| And sorry hear that your best friend is leaving. Are you sure it's Tongseop, not Dongseop. 'cause Tongseop sounds goofy. |
Holy cow! Who is that Darrin312 guy!?!?? 
Anyway I know it sounds goofy but that��s how HE spells it- so in his memory I will preserve his spelling!  When I talk to him I don��t say "TongSeop" I say "DongSeop". And yeah- it��s not the same here since he left. I worked with him (in some capacity) on virtually all of my projects here; this change will take some time to get used to!
It seems like all the good people quit this job��. |
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Shincheon_Blues
Joined: 16 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| And sorry hear that your best friend is leaving. Are you sure it's Tongseop, not Dongseop. 'cause Tongseop sounds goofy. |
For Christ's sake Sheeon, give it a break. Are you an expert on the McCune-Reischauer system of romanization? Perhaps you prefer the ��Hangeul�� Romanization system announced by the Ministry of Culture in July 2000. Perhaps you lean toward the Yale, Lukoff and Horne methods.
Are you an expert on transliteration?
Let's take this off topic for a second. (Apologies to Lush and Mr Pink)
Sheeon, would yopu care to explain to all reading this thread the correct way to spell George Bush? Don't bother replying, because we all know that it would end up sounding like "Jor-juh Bush-ee".
That BTW was a cheap shot I just took at you. Sort of like the one you took at Lush, right? |
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sheeon
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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For Christ's sake Sheeon, give it a break. Are you an expert on the McCune-Reischauer system of romanization? Perhaps you prefer the ��Hangeul�� Romanization system announced by the Ministry of Culture in July 2000. Perhaps you lean toward the Yale, Lukoff and Horne methods.
Are you an expert on transliteration? |
Whoa, hold on just a second, where did that come from. I'm not starting another argument here. I wasn't trying to correct Lush either, just thought the name was "funny". 
I'm not a linguist, but since every korean knows that there is no such name as �뼷, I have naturally assumed his name to be ����.
If you ask me about the difference between the two, even you can figure out why T should not be used. To an average Korean, it does sound "goofy" If that guy had gone to a Korean school with that name, well, I don't want to imagine. Tong, by the way means barrel.
It's the guy's name. Wouldn't you want your name to be pronounced correctly?
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Sheeon, would yopu care to explain to all reading this thread the correct way to spell George Bush? Don't bother replying, because we all know that it would end up sounding like "Jor-juh Bush-ee".
That BTW was a cheap shot I just took at you. Sort of like the one you took at Lush, right? |
Actually, my english prounciation is pretty good, (you may not believe it though, ) I'll try, ��-rge ��sh how's that? |
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sheeon
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Lush, you said the good ones are leaving the company. Are they starting their own businesses or scouted away? Cheer up, you still have plenty of friends there. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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lush time to get urself a new puppet  |
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sheeon
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. Pink wrote: |
| lush time to get urself a new puppet |
Mr Pink, nice try, but that won't get me worked up. By the way, how was your visit to the doctor? |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| Mr. Pink wrote: |
| lush time to get urself a new puppet |
Mr Pink, nice try, but that won't get me worked up. By the way, how was your visit to the doctor? |
sheeon- he was referring to me outing my sock "Darrin312" - that was embarrassing!
Oh well at least my notorious sock hasnt been exposed yet! |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| Lush, you said the good ones are leaving the company. Are they starting their own businesses or scouted away? Cheer up, you still have plenty of friends there. |
Its a mix of both- actually I just registered a .co.kr name- one day I imagine I will be working for myself!
Still those with the most ability seem to slip away from here at an alarming rate. IGO! |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| Mr. Pink wrote: |
| lush time to get urself a new puppet |
Mr Pink, nice try, but that won't get me worked up. By the way, how was your visit to the doctor? |
Now why was I visiting the doctor again? Though you write well, you seemed to have missed lush's little "mistake" he posted with his own "sock" and got caught doing it.
I know you, Sheenon are indeed not a sock...we established that on page 2 or 3...so don't get so worked up. |
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sheeon
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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That explains it. I was wondering why you were calling me a sock all this time.
Yes, little misunderstanding on my part. My apologies. |
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sheeon
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Its a mix of both- actually I just registered a .co.kr name- one day I imagine I will be working for myself! |
Don't be too hasty though, suck all the juices out of them first. Although it would be like a mosquito trying to suck all the blood out of a bull.
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| Still those with the most ability seem to slip away from here at an alarming rate. IGO |
If they're being scouted away, is there really a better place to go than where you currently work? I believe working in Korea doesn't offer too much in way of variety.
Here is another question, is your performance at the company evaluated? Do you get the same treatment as the others? |
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sheeon
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess Shinchon_blues doens't have any more to add regarding the spelling change. It's just common sense. Busan is much better written than Pusan. I know that it's confusing at the moment, with so many different versions of spelling they come up with, but soon they'll settle down. |
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Shincheon_Blues
Joined: 16 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| I guess Shinchon_blues doens't have any more to add regarding the spelling change. It's just common sense. Busan is much better written than Pusan. I know that it's confusing at the moment, with so many different versions of spelling they come up with, but soon they'll settle down. |
Nothing to add on my part. I made the point I wanted and you reinforced it. |
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batman
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Oh so close to where I want to be
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeon wrote: |
| I guess Shinchon_blues doens't have any more to add regarding the spelling change. It's just common sense. Busan is much better written than Pusan. I know that it's confusing at the moment, with so many different versions of spelling they come up with, but soon they'll settle down. |
But as soon as it does settle down, the government will probably adopt a new system.
As far as the Busan/Pusan thing goes, anyone know why the infamous Korea Times still uses the old spelling?
Or why Pusan National University still adheres to the old system but Pukyung has been changed over to Bug-Yeoung on some signs?
Or why the transliteration of 'moon' is spelled m-u-n which looks like it should rhyme with run?
Or why Korean last names (Kim, Park, Lee) have not been touched?
Or why the last name Chae is spelled like Choi which looks like it would rhyme with toy?
Back to the original topic of crying male co-workers, I think I might have met the guy.
Came home the other night to find a guy crying in the stairwell of my building.
He was still there some eleven hours later when I went out the next day.
P.S. lush, must thank you for what has been the most entertaining of threads in a while. Sure it went wildly off topic at times but I think that is what gave it its charm. |
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