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Demophobe

Joined: 17 May 2004
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:23 am Post subject: |
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Alyallen

Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi
How are you?
Where you from?
Are you Christian?/What your religion?
How old are you? |
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Harin

Joined: 03 May 2004 Location: Garden of Eden
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Ok, here is my list of the first English words that I learned in high school.
1. Good morning, good afternoon, good night
2. Hi! Hello! How are you? How do you do? Nice to meet you. This is my friend, Joe.
3. Thank you! You're welcome.
4. What is your hobby? My hobby is reading books/watching movies/taking a walk/etc
5. How old are you? I am ..... yrs old.
6. What is your favorite ***?
7. Do you like ****? Do you dislike ***? What kind of *** do you like/dislike?
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frogrocket

Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: Tiny Monkey Ville S. Korea
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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I love those!
I forgot "How about Korea!"
And "Crazy"
How about this little pet peeve of mine.
Me: So, you don't like Pizza?
Them: Yes.
......huh!?!?!?
Yes you don't like Pizza or Yes you do like pizza?!??! |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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i find that people ask me "are you okay" here a lot?
"ada-yoo okee?"
i've adopted it and it tends to annoy the hell out of my friends. |
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peppermint

Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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"welcome to Korea" was a world cup thing, I think.
According to the Grade 3 curriculum its "Hi, hello, my name is Zeeto." (Zeeto is the alien/ comic relief in the textbook) |
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the_beaver

Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| "welcome to Korea" was a world cup thing, I think. |
No ma'am. They've been saying that since I got here in 1995. Speculation at the time was that it was an Expo thing. I suspect that before that people speculated that it was an Olympic thing. |
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Demophobe

Joined: 17 May 2004
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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| frogrocket wrote: |
How about this little pet peeve of mine.
Me: So, you don't like Pizza?
Them: Yes.
......huh!?!?!?
Yes you don't like Pizza or Yes you do like pizza?!??! |
Learn some Korean and you will understand.  |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:10 am Post subject: |
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"Miguk bad"
"handuh- phone"
"Engrishee"
"Hi- eeee" |
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frogrocket

Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: Tiny Monkey Ville S. Korea
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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Learn some Korean and you will understand.  |
Demophobe....Why?
No other country speaks this language...why waste my time.
I'm not a Korean 'lifer'.  |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:37 am Post subject: |
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egg suh koozuh me |
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frogrocket

Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: Tiny Monkey Ville S. Korea
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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You actually hear the phrase "Excuse me"?!
I usually only get elbowed in the side and launched outta the way! |
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superteacher
Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Location: wherever students need english!
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Korean: where are you from?
Me: Australia.
Korean: ohhhh kangaroo!
followed by uncomfortable silence.
a few seconds later...
Korean: Korea good?
another uncomfortable silence! |
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frogrocket

Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: Tiny Monkey Ville S. Korea
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| superteacher wrote: |
Korean: where are you from?
Me: Australia.
Korean: ohhhh kangaroo!
followed by uncomfortable silence.
a few seconds later...
Korean: Korea good?
another uncomfortable silence! |
hee hee that's funny!  |
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jaebea
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Location: SYD
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:15 am Post subject: |
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They love using "so-so"
So many times on MSN, I'd be talking to some buddies who like to practise english. I humour them. Who's the idiot? :)
"Hey there. How are you?"
"So so"
"#!%!%!%"
They don't seem to be able to break that habit. I'm reminded of Prometheus' punishment.
jae. |
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