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Lawrence



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 7:49 pm    Post subject: Ajumma grammar question... Reply with quote

Is it a gaggle, a pack , a swarm, or a coven of ajummas?
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kimcheeking
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A swarm sounds good to me.
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Korea Newfie



Joined: 27 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about a gang? Obvious, yes. But would you mess with them? Shocked
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've always referred to it as an ajumma party

After all, don't they look like they're having fun? And they don't care who knows it.

Sparkles*_* (wants to buy one of those nifty, futuristic lookin' sun visors)
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maxxx_power



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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A "murder" of Ajummas, a group of Ajummas is called a MURDER!

Doh!
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Kyrei



Joined: 22 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From my first days in Korea. The tune, I'm sure, you can figure out for yourself:

If you go out in the street today, you're in for a big surprise!
If you go out in the street today, you'd better go in disguise!
Because everywhere are women who wear whatever they dare
And they don't care!
This is where the ajummas have their picnic!

From the old days when a herd of ajummas would congregate on the traffic island at Gangnam station and have a picnic every day at lunchtime.

Kyrei
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Bunnymonster



Joined: 16 Mar 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I asked a Korean friend and they said it was an adjummandle. Dunno if this was just her slang or if it is widely used but it works for me.....
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bunnymonster wrote:
I asked a Korean friend and they said it was an adjummandle. Dunno if this was just her slang or if it is widely used but it works for me.....


That's probably from the Korean pluralization suffix �� or "dle/deul" and it's booooring!

I like pack the best. Swarm implies too much motion, gaggle is just silly, coven is too saintly, and murder is, well, my second favorite.
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komtengi



Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

posse, clique, crew??
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The evil penguin



Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe the correct term for a group of halmonies is called a waddle. But a collection of adjumas??? hmmmmm.....

A flotilla??? A formation of adjumas??? (as in a formation of B52's about to wreak havoc on Berlin...)

Somewhat obscure, but maybe a wrath of adjumas...

A tribe?

What does the Daves grammar guide say?
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bobbyhanlon



Joined: 09 Nov 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a battalion?
a heckle?
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fruitcake



Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Location: shinchon

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kyrei wrote:
From my first days in Korea. The tune, I'm sure, you can figure out for yourself:

If you go out in the street today, you're in for a big surprise!
If you go out in the street today, you'd better go in disguise!
Because everywhere are women who wear whatever they dare
And they don't care!
This is where the ajummas have their picnic!

From the old days when a herd of ajummas would congregate on the traffic island at Gangnam station and have a picnic every day at lunchtime.

Kyrei


actually...the tune I've always heard....

(to the song "Panama" by Van Halen")

AJUMMA!
AJUM-MA-HA
AJUMMA!
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sparkx



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A Grunt of Adjummas
A Stank of Adjossis
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xtchr



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Harangue of Halmonis
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paperbag princess



Joined: 07 Mar 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what's the word for a group of lemmings?
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