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J.B. Clamence
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| Does anyone besides me find the guy's thumb size a little odd in proportion to stuff? |
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Sliver
Joined: 04 May 2003
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Look up the two parts in a Korean-English Dictionary.
占쏙옙 (e): anxiety; worry; trouble.
占쏙옙 (feel): a head; a roll of cloth; finished.
If you use the Hanja, then peppergirl is correct. However, if you strictly focus on the Hangeul, then you will find what I found. It seems Korean-English dictionaries show the Korean (Hangeul), not necessarily the Hanja characters.
1. 占쏙옙 ---> 占쏙옙占� ---> love; affection; attachment; passion
http://hanja.naver.com/hanja.php?where=hanja&query=占쏙옙
2. 占쏙옙 ---> 占쌥듸옙占� ---> certainly; surely; necessarily; inevitably
http://hanja.naver.com/hanja.php?where=hanja&query=占쏙옙
Hanja, or 'Sino-Korean characters', means the Chinese characters used in Korea. For more on Hanja, see the following: learnkorean.com -- link: http://www.learnkorean.com/whanja/hclassindex.asp
Anyway, look up the Korean characters (Hangeul).
1. 占쏙옙 ---> anxiety; worry; trouble.
A. Korean-English Dictionary (Yahoo)
http://kr.engdic.yahoo.com/eng/search.html?p=%BE%D6&condition%5B%5D=1&condition%5B%5D=2&condition%5B%5D=3&x=10&y=11
B. Korean-English Dictionary (Naver)
http://endic.naver.com/search.naver?mode=all&query=%BE%D6&x=31&y=7
2. 占쏙옙 ---> a head; a roll of cloth; finished.
A. Korean-English Dictionary (Yahoo)
http://kr.engdic.yahoo.com/eng/search.html?p=%C7%CA&condition%5B%5D=1&condition%5B%5D=2&condition=3&x=31&y=15
B. Korean-English Dictionary (Naver)
http://endic.naver.com/search.naver?mode=all&query=%C7%CA&x=22&y=9
Koreans use their own unique alphabet called Hangeul. It is considered to be one of the most efficient alphabets in the world and has garnered unanimous praise from language experts for its scientific design and excellence. Throughout history, Hangeul has been at the root of the Korean culture, helping to preserve its national identity and independence.
What is Hangeul?
Ministry of Culture & Tourism, Republic of Korea
http://www.mct.go.kr/english/K_about/Language02.html
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Is this why RR usually just posts links rather than original content? Rather than 'I made a mistake" RR writes:
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| If you use the Hanja, then peppergirl is correct. |
Does this show RR's true understanding of Korea through, what is in my opinion, a statement bordering on self protectionism? Strange for someone who I thought had some command of linguistic pragmatism to write this:
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| ...if you strictly focus on the Hangeul, then you will find what I found. It seems Korean-English dictionaries show the Korean... |
I can respect someone who doesn't feign naivety to hide a mistake. No one in this world is above an error. Sometimes, but not always, to be gracious wins more points than to be indignant. I think this is one of those times. |
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Real Reality
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:27 am Post subject: |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Danke fer d nu avatar!
!shoosh
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Blind Willie
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| In one of my classrooms, there is a poster with various veggies on it. When the kids start talking about the peppers in Korean, I yell out, "Byeon TAE!" because it embarasses them. |
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Real Reality
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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Group to Select Another Korean Name for Condom
The recently selected Korean name for condom is being replaced with a new one as some people with the same name strongly oppose its use, the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation said Monday.
"We've decided to withdraw our plan to launch an AIDS prevention campaign using the Korean name for condom, "aepil," since people of the same name protested over phone or the Internet," said Kim Hoon-soo, public relations director of the federation. "We later found there are around 10 people with the same name across the country," he said. "We will ask the public for another Korean name for condom next year, which we hope won't give offend anyone," Kim said.
By Moon Gwang-lip, Korea Times (December 6, 2004)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200412/kt2004120617000511970.htm |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Well I don't know much about the debate but does anyone else here think the Jongno-gu symbol looks like... er... well... you know...
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noelinkorea
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: Shinchon, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:44 am Post subject: good luck finding a new name... |
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| I'm sure we're all aware that Korean words are made up of syllables which have numerous meanings due to differeing hanja. The same is true for Korean names, of course...so I think it will be very hard not to create a new word for condom that couldn't also potentially be someone's name...especially if they're worrying about just ten people having the name...Maybe a foreign word is easier, given that it might be less likely to be like a Korean name...good luck, I say... |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:57 am Post subject: Re: good luck finding a new name... |
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| noelinkorea wrote: |
| I'm sure we're all aware that Korean words are made up of syllables which have numerous meanings due to differeing hanja. The same is true for Korean names, of course...so I think it will be very hard not to create a new word for condom that couldn't also potentially be someone's name...especially if they're worrying about just ten people having the name...Maybe a foreign word is easier, given that it might be less likely to be like a Korean name...good luck, I say... |
As it happens, one article on the issue I read said that that was exactly what had happened -- there were about ten people in the country with that name and they were pissed.
Sounds funny, but there was a Cialis family that sued last year. |
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