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[lief]

Things never to say to your elders...

Dangguenyiji! �������!
Right on! Of course! (That's the carrot!)

Gajin geon bulal du jjok ���� �� �Ҿ� �� 쯕
I don't have much to my name but I've got pluck. (All I have is a pair of *beep*)

[T-dot]

Jajjingna!

[chronicpride]

I don't have Korean on this computer, but:

"Jeolla jjang!!"

As in 'that's the *beep*-ing bomb!' and similar expressions.

or the more toned down without expletive:

"Yeolla jjang!!"

[Swiss James]

I've only heard it said, so will spell it badly but:

"Mul choh ta!"
'The water's clear here'='there are loads of fit women around'

[schwa]

I hear jjang a lot less frequently these days, it may have had its day.

I like bangkok meaning 'stayed in my room.'
"Where did you go on vacation?" "Bangkok."

[billybrobby]

If we're gonna revive a bunch of dead threads, lets get this one rolling again. I can always use more slang. Here's some I know. You'll notice i concentrate on the insults and dirty stuff. correct any mistakes please.

���� byeong shin : retard
�˽� ddong sa : sh*t!
���� jaen jang : d*mn
���� yeolla, ���� cholla : really (like 'that's ���� cool')
�߸����� yalijima : what the f*ck are you looking at?
��Ծ��� kka mokoso : i forgot (when you forget something for a moment)
�����߾� kam bbak haesso : same as above
���� beom saeng : nerd
�Ƕ��� ddo lai : creep(?)
��,��,�� : short of �ֱ̾�,���ֱ� and �׾ֱ�. Used simply as 'he' or 'she' when talking about somebody who doesn't require polite speech. The plural forms are ��׵�,���׵� and �³׵�. These are very useful.

[ladyandthetramp]

[billybrobby]

i dunno...���� is definitely a little low class but is it as bad as f*cking? i think i've heard cute little school girls say it. actually, i wanted to translate it as 'hella' because they sound similar, but I thought not very many people use 'hella.'

but, yeah, of course, all this stuff is dangerous. i wouldn't really say any of it to someone i'm using ���� with.

[Chillin' Villain]

Isn't it ����? I could be wrong, cuz I've never seen it in writing or anything, but my buddies pronounce it that way, and I always thought it was derived from �� (sorta like �����)...

Anyways, it's definitely more like "effing" than "damn", I'd say... Schoolgirls swear too...

I'm super-careful with the Korean cusswords, only around friends I'm ultra-familiar with who don't even flinch to hear anything from me. Saying it just to get a laugh outta strangers usually generates the opposite effect-especially if the REST of your Korean lexicon is limited. I know that I can't STAND hearing Koreans drop the f-bomb left,right, and center unless they're good friends of mine or pretty fluent with the English.

It certainly beats using �ʹ�, �ſ� or whatever all the time, but it's really not a very nice word!

(**Anecdote**- my buddies are slight jackasses, and when they taught me this they told me it was perfectly fine, natural, colloquial language. I still wouldn't say that the �ø� was "���� ���־��" to the ajumma like they wanted me to, though... I could just tell by the way they were laughing about it that it was all bad... haha... )

[canadian_in_korea]

[jinglejangle]

[jinglejangle]

[thebum]

[komtengi]

�ɷ� - *beep*
���� - chick, of the female variety
���� - style. can be used negatively with the �� prefix
ȣ�� ���� - not sure the translation... but pretty harsh fighting words

[AdamH]

I was led to believe that �Ƕ��� (Dorai) is the equivalent to calling someone "an insane person"..."madman", I guess.

Can anyone clarify the difference between ���� �� (micha-so, not sure about the spelling) and ��ģ (michin)? Some say the latter is quite rude, but some of the kids I teach seem to have no trouble flinging it around with impunity.