Korean Job Discussion Forums

[tomato]

Joe Doufu posted this comic strip on another thread:



Perhaps we can do the same thing to the Korean language.
It's easy: just take a noun and add �ϴ�.

verb will be �����ϴ�.

There may not be very many nouns which we need to operate on, though.

weird is already an inflected adjective--�̻��ϴ�. To translate Calvin's comment, however, we should probably say �̻��ϰ� �ϴ�.

The first word which my dictionary lists for access is ����, and �����ϴ� means "to approach, come near." Watch out, though. It also means "to become intimate with."

The verbed noun which brought on this discussion was impact. The first word listed is �浹. �浹�ϴ� is listed three times. It means "to collide," "to conflict," and "to encounter." None of those three words would help in translating the OP's message, though. As I understand it, he was hoping to "impact" his students by making a deep impression in their memory.

[joe_doufu]

I can't speak Korean, but I could suggest:

"Let's go kimbapping."
"Let's maekju up."
"I annyonged him but he got angry and insisted that I annyonghaseo."
"Instead of giving me a paycheck, my school always manwons me up the butt"

[tomato]

I don't know much Italian, but using verbs with participles seem to convert into nouns easier in Italian than in English.
We borrow the word graffiti because "written things" sounds so weak.
We call Verdi's opera La Traviata by its original name because "The Fallen Person."

Back to the subject of the Korean language: It would be hard to make nouns out of verbs with participles in Korean, but �� and ��� don't sound as weak as "thing" and "person."

���� is listed as the Korean word for graffiti, but a Google search shows several incidents of �� ��.

I see a few Websites which translate La Traviata as Ÿ���� ����,
but I also see a few Websites which translate it as �� Ʈ����Ÿ.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Let's KT.

Sparkles*_*

[waterbaby]

[desultude]

I like "verbing" aesthetically, sometimes- for example, "weirding" something- has a good ring to it- rather poetic.

But I find myself annoyed with the practice at the same time. I guess I just don't like unimaginative and lazy use of language, which is what it is most of the time when nouns become verbs. It is also done a lot in military and bureaucratic language.

If it adds to the beauty and usefulness of language, fine, if it is a lazy shortcut (like "nouning" acronyms) I find it annoying and debasing. I know this is a rather subjective standard- but all standards are.



Are you back in Korea, waterbaby?

[waterbaby]

[Qinella]

Bravo your life!

[tomato]

Ever heard of primal therapy, as advocated by Arthur Janov?
Janov alleges therapeutic value in curling up like an embryo and simulating a new birth.
Janov abuses the language forty ways for Sunday.
Such a position and such an activity is known as a primal.
To assume such a position and to engage in such an activity is to primal.
Such an activity is denoted as primal.

Let's see, now, how shall we translate all this into Korean?
Acocording to the Google search, the word is written �����̸�.
I guess the noun is �����̸�, the verb is �����̸��ϴ�, and the adjective is �����̸���.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I've been a big advocate of Webster's adding the verb "to stereo" to their next edition.

For example, when two people say the same word or phrase at the same time, they have stereoed.

Jinx!

Sparkles*_*

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[animalbirdfish]

Why's dungjipping so popular with young boys here?